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We all know that cigarette smoking is injurious to health and that it causes several irreversible damages to our body thereby reducing the life span.
Cigarette smoking is responsible for harmful effect on our body organs. Smoking could lead to diseases like cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and heart complications, peptic ulcer disease, impotence, and complications in pregnancy.
Smoking is a preventable cause of cancer. Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 different compounds of which significant number are toxic (poisonous) and carcinogenic substances. These toxic chemicals enter our blood stream and damage the cell DNA which leads to less effective immune system.
Smoking cigarettes can cause at least 14 different types of cancer; lung cancer is the number 1 risk factor of smoking.
Cigarette not just damages a smoker's health, but also causes significant damages to his/her wealth. Addiction to smoking leads to a habit of wasting money for an unhealthy pleasure. Quitting and staying away from cigarettes is difficult, but not impossible. Choice is yours put off the cigarette before it outs you off...
It's never too late to make healthy choices, if you wish to quit smoking and want a healthy life. Help yourself by undergoing health screening to know your complete health status and making sure next phase of life is healthy.
Get to know your health status by the customised comprehensive health checkup packages provided by Indus Health Plus, the preventive health checkup specialist. To know more about us, health checkup packages details, share a thought, tips for healthy living.
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Over the last few decades, humans have dumped tons of plastic garbage into the ocean and this process will continue for years to come. Around 580,000 pieces of plastic junk per square kilometer were found in the Atlantic Ocean. The consequences of this are seen in our food chain. The seafood we eat is also affected by plastics. Let's understand how does plastic affect the body?
The title may sound little blown up and several people will come up with an argument of them being still disease free, alive and kicking in spite of smoking for a long time but believe us, this DOES NOT change the fact that smoking actually kills!
Smoking, alcohol and junk food are definitely the biggest three idiots of nutrition and health. And sadly everyone seems to love this trio even though their harmful effects are evident, apparent and known to all.
Heart diseases are not contagious. Unhealthy choices in our lifestyle make us prone to them, if we keep aside the hereditary factor.
This World Heart Day, let’s begin by making small changes in our lifestyle and inch closer to have a healthy-heart.
During party season, very often the healthcare regime goes for a toss, weight loss resolutions are overlooked and food and alcohol binge is welcomed.
With the temptations of great food and alcohol to lure you away, it is hard to stick on a particular way of eating. Drinking partying or any other social gathering, have some guidelines set to gain maximum enjoyment & minimum weight. Gobbling down more than a plate of food at a party would not be considered as responsible eating or even polite in most cultures, the same goes for drinking. While binge drinking must be avoided at all cost, it is not possible to wholly abstain in the party season; given the nature of problem in hand it is best to resort to responsible drinking.
Not all that you get in inheritance is good and for the keeps. Same goes for certain diseases and health conditions. Family’s medical history has a conspicuous role to play in deciding your disease status.
Some diseases are genetic or hereditary in nature, which means they run in generation to generation. Most of the lifestyle related diseases or NCDs fall in this category.
'Non-Communicable Diseases' i.e NCDs, also known as chronic diseases. These diseases are not passed from person to person. Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are usually caused by genetic or lifestyle factors & these diseases of long duration and generally slow progression. The Four main type of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases, Cancers, Chronic respiratory diseases & Diabetes.
Not everything you get in inheritance is worthy for the keeps. But in case of medical legacy, sometimes you are not left with much choice.
Your family history of diseases plays an important role in mapping your health status. Although family’s medical history is vital for an individual’s health but is not the only decisive factory in acquiring a particular disease.
Today, diseases have stopped showing affinity merely towards elderly and are inflicting the young equally - all thanks to the unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits of the new-gen!
Studies and surveys reflect that smoking, alcohol consumption and stress related disorders are key health issues among the youth. Approximately, 150 million young people smoke or are using tobacco products and unfortunately the number is continuously on the rise. Alarming and disturbing but indeed true!
Lifestyle and our health have an extremely close relationship with each other. There is a difference between the lifestyle of older people. Up to the generation of our parents, lot of heed was paid towards the thought of health. They did not have to face growing competition, tensions as we do today. But still the physical work and mental wellbeing all was the outcome of their health lifestyle.
Tobacco kills nearly 60 lakh people each year, out of which more than 50 lakh are users or ex-users and more than 6,00,000 are non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke. Globally tobacco-attributable causes of death was 10 crore in the 20th century. Unchecked, the toll will rise up to a hundred crore in the 21st century.
India has around 12.1 million female smokers. The causes of smoking in women are numerous. Increased stress, so-called metro culture and many more reasons why Indian women smoke. The smoking effects on health are terrifying and it has destroyed many lives.
New Year is approaching and most of us gear up to make new resolutions like healthy diet plan, gym membership and work hard to crop your size. Most people struggle hard to keep up with their promises during winters and gain excess weight. A well-planned winter cleansing routine will make you feel strong, warm and healthy. It will help you lose some extra pounds without leaving you cold and frail.
Immune system is the primary defense mechanism of our body that remarkably fights of the disease-causing bugs and keeps us healthy. However, at times we see a downfall in the immune system: you get infected and fall sick. How to improve immune system is the first question that pops your mind. Are there any immune booster foods? Can you use vitamins to boost immune system? How does diet play a role? What are the lifestyle changes you need to make to get better immune health?
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