Sunday, March 14, 2010

Urban life style : We need some change


Author- Manoj Kumar
Today we are living in an environment full of pollution and health hazards. We are living under tremendous work pressure. We are taking contaminated food which is unhealthy and junk which makes us disease prone much before the age which earlier used to be. The diseases which used to catch older people say after the age of 45 have started taking even the kids in its hold. Number of new diseases has cropped up in the recent past due to the complex life style and changing food habits.
Urban people are living a life style which is highly unhygienic, they wake up late in the morning, do not get time for exercise and morning walk. Get ready for the office in a hurry and after reaching office remain sitting in the chair most of the time. They don’t have a fixed time for taking lunch and time to time snacks that our body requires. There is no time to return home because of the workloads. When they reach home after 9 pm, they get indulge into TV Programs or their electronic gadgets. They sleep late at night. Some people have a habit of late night parties, alcohols etc. that also poses a great risk to their health. The work pressure has sneaked into the bedrooms of the executives. With the laptops and palmtops, they can be seen working at the odd nights. This has made their family life ruined. People have no time for their spouses and children. The warmth of the relation is getting weird this way. The growing children who need their parents for guidance at this level, do not find them available at home, as when their parents come to home in the nights, they happen to be sleeping. And, in the morning when they wake up, the parents happen to be in hurry to go to their offices, and children to rush to their schools. They are left in the guidance of the servants. With both the spouses working, the household earning has increased. The parents are exchanging their time for their children with the money, so whenever their children complain about the time they want to spend with their parents, they shut their mouth by giving them more money than what they actually require. They spend this money lavishly and knowingly or unknowingly get prey to wrong habits like gambling, taking alcohol and drugs, watching porn movies, visiting pubs, bars and discotheque. They can be easily seen in the discotheques of the cities on the weekdays after their schools hours shaking their hips with their partners. The parents do not object as many of them believe these are the part of the western lifestyle. The teenagers are getting more violent now a days, because of these negative impacts they are having in their lives.
Obesity is a big problem in the urban India as there is no control on the food habits. They eat more but don’t go for workouts. As a result at least 40 % children of the new generation are suffering with this problem of obesity in India. Obesity leads to many diseases like diabetes, heart disease and all in early stage of life to these children. Besides in urban India the puberty age in boys and girls has also come down from an earlier around 14 in them to now 9 or 10 years as a result of high calorie food and the access to the obscenity and adult contents screened by almost all the TV channels, contemporary music videos and movies. This is reflected in our society in terms of the teenage sex, pregnancy and their abortions. Because of the lack of sex education and vulnerability of their tender minds, they are falling prey to various sexually transmitted diseases and AIDs which are traced only when they reach their advance stages as they either themselves do not know about those or fear to share those things with their parents.
The need of the hour is to make our life styles simple and live our lives in a natural way. We need to work out in the morning. We should take any sort of exercise like morning walk, jogging, running, aerobics, dancing, working out in gyms, doing yoga etc. Half n hour of work out daily recharges our body for the full day of work. We should take our lunch, dinner, and snacks in time with right balance of calories and nutrients required for our bodies. We need to keep the level of stress to our minds at the minimum level. We need to share our life with our near and dear ones, so that we could have some time to laugh and get de-stressed. We should give ample time to our family, spouses and children, so that they remain in our guidance and not fall prey to the polluted environment and lifestyle.
Be conscious toward your health and peace of mind! Make your children aware of the health hazards and inspire them to work out in daily routine and have a close eye on their daily life, educate them about the issues related to their growing up and be friendly with them. Always remain prepared to answer their complex set of questions naturally coming to their innocent but vulnerable mind!
And finally, Say no to Alcohol! Say no to Smoking! Say no to Drugs! Say no to Violence!

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मित्रों यदि मेरा यह पोस्ट आपके दिल को जरा भी छू कर गुजरा हो तो मुझे विश्वास है कि आप मेरे इस प्रयास को लाइक दे कर मुझे और भी अच्छा लिखने की प्रेरणा, स्नेह और आशीर्वाद देंगे। आप अगर मुझे मेरे फेसबुक प्रोफाइल पर फॉलो करते हैं तो आपको मेरे शेयर किये सारे पोस्ट्स आपके नोटिफिकेशन्स में मिलते रहेंगे। 

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