Everyone wants to live longer, but our lifestyles are making us prematurely old and sick. In today's lifestyle, people face many challenges, which negatively affect their health and age. Like sleeping late and not waking up early every day, eating junk food and processed food, eating too much sugar, not exercising, always being stressed about work and living an extremely busy life.
According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs survey, India's current life expectancy in 2024 is 70.62 years. That means Indians live an average of 70 years. This is less than the life expectancy of other countries. There are many countries in the world where people live long and healthy lives. After all, what is so special about his life? What are the things that give them a long healthy life?
Today's relationship We will try to know the answer to these questions in the column. We will also learn about the 'blue zone' countries where people live up to 100 years.
70-80% of longevity is related to our lifestyle According to a study by the National Institutes of Health published in the National Library of Medicine, longevity is only 20% to 30% related to our genetic makeup. The remaining 70% to 80% depends on our lifestyle. That is, it really depends on how we live our life, how long and happy life we will live.
In youth we do not pay any attention to our daily routine. Eating fast food like burgers, momos, maggi, pizza, using mobile for hours, watching reels, playing games, not spending time with family and then getting tired quickly. This kind of lifestyle has a very negative effect on our health. Its effect is seen on our health after years.
Negative aspects of modern urban life Psychologist Dr. Zafar Khan says that stress, competition and isolation of urban life are some of the negative aspects of modernity. We need to think and work on this. such as-
- Life is full of stress and workload
- People live in different cities away from family
- Life lacks real, close friendships
- There is more competition and less harmony in the office
- People are living a lonely life in their homes
- Often even neighbors in metropolitan cities do not know their neighbors
- Due to growing nuclear family, family support is not available
Loneliness and stress are shortening your life Not only eating habits or bad lifestyle, isolation from society and loneliness of people living in cities can also be a factor that is affecting our age. Nowadays people have no one to express their opinion or express their pain. They suffer from loneliness and stress due to lack of love, support and companionship.
Psychologist Dr. Zafar Khan says that loneliness makes you feel isolated from others. This affects both mental and physical health. Stress caused by loneliness can bother you. Physical symptoms such as frequent bad thoughts, depression and body aches may also occur.
Going mad in the race to achieve success Psychologist Dr. Zafar Khan says that in today's competitive world, everyone is chasing success. Due to which the tension is increasing among the people and especially among the youth. Also, we neglect our health and mental health due to the workload and constant rush to do better than others. We realize this only when it is too late.
Life has less love and more jealousy Competition is increasing in office, family, society and life and it is causing jealousy. Psychologist Dr Zafar Khan says that we are not satisfied with what we have. The feeling of love, harmony and support in life is diminishing. This is very dangerous for life.
Aging is a disease and it has a cure Professor of Genetics at Harvard University David A. Sinclair has written a book – 'Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have Too.' He proposed a theory about why we age and how we can live longer. He argues that we can achieve longer life by changing our lifestyle. But for this we have to understand what is special about those who live longer.
'Blue Zone' means where people live for 100 years 'Blue Zones' are countries where people live longer on average, some up to 100 years. They live very long because they work hard, eat well, connect with nature and stay healthy. The lifestyle and food habits in these countries are such that they promote longevity and health. Find out where the 'Blue Zone' is in the graphic below.
How did these places get the name 'Blue Zone'? These places are called 'Blue Zones' because these areas were highlighted in blue ink on the map. There is an interesting story behind this. Once American writer Dan Buettner was doing research with demographer, Michel Poulin. He was identifying areas on the map where people lived for more than 100 years. When he found these places, he illuminated them with the blue pen he held in his hand at the time. Since then those places were named 'Blue Zone'.
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