NOVEL APPROACH TOWARDS GLOBALIZATION OF AYURVEDA IN THE FIELD OF LIFE STYLE DISORDERS
Yuvarj A. Devane and *Dr. Kirti S. Navane
ABSTRACT
Lifestyle disease known as ‘non-communicable diseases’ (NCD’s) or ‘chronic diseases of lifestyle’ (CDL) emerge from inappropriate relationship of people with their environment. These are a group of diseases that share similar risk factors, which may be due to exposure over many decades, unhealthy diets, smoking, lack of exercise, and stress. The major risk factors are high blood pressure, tobacco addiction, high blood cholesterol, diabetes and obesity. From the history of treatment and preventive measures given to the persons suffering from life style diseases, Ayurveda has proven its role and importance in this area. The other systems do not have any other answers than the supply of nutritional food and physical activities in this respect. Also as the nutritional food and physical activity are well defined in Ayurvedic system, it can be considered that there is much scope in Ayurveda only and so this article is drewing attention that there is a need of globalization in field of life style disorders not only in preventive aspect but also curative.
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