Sustainable living is the maintaining of one’s life or lifestyle at a steady level without exhausting resources or causing damage to the environment. It is a lifestyle that assumes continuous economic growth without irreversibly damaging the environment. Sustainable living is also a lifestyle that reduces an individual’s use of natural resource. Having a sustainable lifestyle brings about change especially in the society. It provides us with the energy we need to be a positive force in the world
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Lifestyle is a person’s behavior indicated in the activities‚ interests and opinions especially those related to self-image to reflect the social status. Modern lifestyle synonymous with luxury. Lifestyle is also very closely related to the times and technology. Increasing age and increasingly sophisticated technology‚ the more widespread implementation of lifestyle also by humans in everyday life. In another sense‚ lifestyle can give positive or negative effects for those who run it. Well‚ depending
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regard. I have not allowed anyone else to copy my work. Signature: SHORT QUESTIONS 1. What were the similarities between the economy of the pre-colonial Khoekhoe and that of the San? (2) The two bands shared a travelling lifestyle where they followed the rains for better hunting and herding to take place‚ however the San was more mobile than the Khoekhoe. Each clan relied on livestock to survive however the San did not own livestock such as the Khoe. 2. What was the main
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Definition of Lifestyle disease Lifestyle disease: A disease associated with the way a person or group of people lives. Lifestyle diseases include atherosclerosis‚ heart disease‚ and stroke; obesity and type 2 diabetes; and diseases associated with smoking and alcohol and drug abuse. Regular physical activity helps prevent obesity‚ heart disease‚ hypertension‚ diabetes‚ colon cancer‚ and premature mortality. ‘Lifestyle diseases’ such as heart disease‚ some cancers and diabetes‚ which are no longer
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Sedentary lifestyle This article is about the medical term. For the anthropologic concept‚ see sedentism. "Couch potato" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Couch potato (disambiguation). Increases in sedentary behaviors such as watching television are characteristic of a sedentary lifestyle A sedentary lifestyle is a type of lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity. A person who lives a sedentary lifestyle may colloquially be known as a couch potato. It is commonly found in both the
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Analyse the Causes and Effects of Lifestyle Diseases in the World Lifestyle diseases are illnesses associated with the way an individual or a group lives‚ including cancer‚ stroke‚ heart disease‚ diabetes‚ chronic liver disease‚ smoking-related diseases and obesity. There are a number of considerable factors that can lead to those sicknesses. For instance‚ external causes involve poverty‚ work pressure‚ unhealthy diets and unbalanced life‚ while internal factors refer to unawareness and misconception
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Lifestyle Disease Lifestyle disease which may also be referred to as Non-Communicable Disease‚ has in recent times become an issue of grave concern for governments both globally and regionally. The World Health Organization (WHO) Secretary-General‚ during a General Assembly Summit (first ever summit on deadly chronic illnesses) in 2011deemed in a statement "...the spread of non-communicable diseases as a socio-economic and development challenge of epidemic proportions..." . In another report from
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Lifestyle Diseases There are many diseases that contribute immensely to the burden placed on a person‚ a family‚ a society and a country‚ and despite advances in medicine‚ the number of people with such diseases continues to increase with people dying younger. In a newspaper article dated back two years stated that in June the previous year‚ Pacific health ministers had declared a non-communicable disease (NCD) crisis because it was revealed that the Pacific was breeding a generation of obese children
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Lifestyle Disease A lifestyle disease is one where a person’s choice in how they live their life – what they eat‚ how they socialize‚ where they work‚ how they care of themselves – either causes or increases their chances of contracting. This makes them different from other diseases which are caused by things such as genetics (inherited from family background) or chance (like catching a cold from a friend). Modern life increases the number of people with lifestyle diseases. An industrialized
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Communicable Disease Paper Shuntelle J. Robinson HCS457 November 10‚ 2013 Monica Vargas Communicable Disease There are many types of communicable disease that impact our society. Gonorrhea is a communicable disease that is transmitted through sexual intercourse. This paper will provide a detailed description of the disease and discuss efforts to control it. I will identify the environmental factors and explain the influence of lifestyles‚ socioeconomic status‚ and
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