What is Lifestyle modification & why is it, the need of the hour ?
Lifestyle is the way you live your life; what you eat, how and when you eat, how much you exercise, how you cope with stressful situations. Lifestyle Modification is a pro-active approach towards optimum health & wellness by bringing about appropriate changes in the way you live to Live Life More. It is the need of the hour because the biggest killer in the world today accounting for almost 80% deaths worldwide is not war, disease, natural calamities or accidents. The biggest killer is, Lifestyle. Wrong diet; lack of physical activity and exercise; Obesity; mental stress and tensions of fast paced competitive life; pollution; alcohol and smoking are the major culprits; which manifest themselves innocently as high blood pressure, diabetes or high blood cholesterol and then without warning, strike fatally as heart attacks, stroke or cancer. They can potentially cut short the lives (mortality) or disable the patients (Morbidity) in the most productive years of their lives. Hence, one has
