Lifestyle

Lifestyle

• Stress can lead to unhealthy lifestyle or health damaging behaviors.
• Lifestyle is the overall pattern of decisions and behaviors that determine a person’s health and quality of life.
• Stressed individuals may be likely to expose themselves to pathogens i.e., agents causing physical illness.
• People who are stressed:

1. have poor nutritional habits
2. sleep less
3. are likely to engage in other health risking behaviors like smoking and alcohol abuse, which develop gradually and are accompanied by pleasant experiences temporarily.

• However, we tend to ignore their long-term damaging affects and underestimate the risk they pose to our lives.
• The modern lifestyle of excesses on eating, drinking and the so called fast-paced good life has led to the violation of basic principles of health as to what we eat, think or do with our lives.