Yes...Modern living has made people weak, unhealthy and disease prone...Modern living means adopting the western culture, smoking, drinking, eating pizzas and burgers, etc.Also working at night times in a BPO or a Call Centre is now a days modern living.....But this makes you obese and also mentally sick as scientifically it is proved that brain automatically relaxes...So the people working in the companies become mentally ill and sick...Now don't we see teens and adults smoking in shops, in parties, on roads....It is because of maybe stress or even peer pressure...But smoking reduces 13.9% of the life.....Isn't this unhealthy?Smoking also causes many types of cancers such as lung cancer and stomach cancer....Don't we see obese people around us?Actually the number of obese people has increased....It is because most of them eat junk food regularly and some of them twice or thrice a week...
People have all got influenced by the western styles and now are getting lazier ....people doing night duties don't get proper sleep and hence leading to sleep disorders .....also the busy life of people has made them jump to a easier way of living ...ie eating the junk or packed food which is full of preservatives nowadays a walk in the garden has come to a run on the treadmill...You want to go bicycling...well ll go to the gym and that's the way it goes ...exercise is not only for burning fats and carbohydrates but for getting in touch with the fresh morning air which keeps you active the whole day, it is affecting ,all the people are trying to turn their simple life into sophisticated living.Of course the modern living is directly affecting the people.Now, due to easy availability of many consumer items in the market attracts each and every consumer and they try to procure the item either by spending their saving or taking loan from the banks etc. Both ways the money circulation in the market increases resulting in rise in inflation and related hardships
There are two sides to the coin, as far as modern day lifestyles are concerned. On the one hand, technology has subverted us to a great extent, so much so that for many of us, our lifestyle has become sedentary. A sedentary lifestyle, coupled with a rich food habit, has made us all prone to disease and illness. The number of people succumbing to cardiac ailments has risen greatly. In America, obesity has reached epidemic proportions, and brings along with it attendant health issues like diabetes. So, in a way, the modern day lifestyle has left us more prone to disease.
However, today we are also more aware of the ailments around us, and also about what needs to be done to mitigate these ailments or ensure we do not get them. People are more aware of their bodies and the different things that could go wrong with it. Besides, fitness is the new mantra among the younger generation today, ensuring that they are on the road to a healthy future. So to sum it up, the modern day lifestyle may be a cause of worry as far as disease is concerned, but we are also now equipped with the know-how and awareness required to avoid these illnesses.
On one hand, modern technology has enabled people to live in cleaner, less disease-ridden environments, freed up time for many people; enabling children to spend their time learning, and relieving the pressure on families to be financially responsible for their sick and disabled. It has made a standard education available to all, and through the welfare state eliminated a great deal of extreme poverty, and brought advanced healthcare to save and prolong millions of lives.
However, the question there is, how much of this is really as good as it looks?
(If you're in a hurry or don't fancy a long read, skip to the last section now.)
Our Cleaner Environment
Our cleaner environment exposes our children to disease to a lesser degree as they are growing up, which combined with our advanced healthcare means the child mortality rate is a great deal lower. However, this also means children do not develop natural resistance to disease in the same way they previously would have done, providing they survived childhood. Some people also argue the lack of challenges to a child's developing immune system may also be responsible for many allergies. Whether this is true or not... We will probably find out as time goes on. The other thing modern medicine and cleanliness does, is mess with natural selection. This is a sad thing to have to say, as no one wants a child to die, but as the children being saved by modern medicine would not have survived previously, their vulnerabilities would not have been passed on. Saving children's lives is a wonderful thing for parents, but for the human race as a whole, this may not be such a good thing. However, time will tell, and nature will generally take care of itself.
Yes, this aspect of modern living has probably made us weaker. This is a trade off for our quality of life.
The Welfare State
Lack of pressure on families to care for their sick, disabled and elderly financially (and practically, due to the acceptable nature of abandonment in care homes etc.) has caused a culture where people who are no longer productive in societies are deposited and put into a separate category where they are no longer in control of any aspect of their own lives, and no longer respected as human beings. This is a psychological strain on both these people and their families, and therefore a potential hazard to health.
Modern Medicine
Modern medicine saves lives, cures and prevents illness to enable people to gain back full and productive lives. However, it also grasps at prolonging life as long as possible, often at the cost of quality of life. The financial aspects of drug companies in many countries also contribute to an approach often no closer to scientific fact-based medicine than that of a witch doctor. Segments of the population are marked out as mentally ill (e.g. Creative/right-brained types diagnosed as ADD/ADHD in the USA,) or even physically ill (e.g. Podiatrists recommending further support to people whose problems caused by a lifetime of unnatural gait (shoe wearing) and who would often be cured by taking their shoes *off*.) Modern medicine does a great deal to improve life in the right hands, providing its practitioners are not misguided, however it also does a great deal of harm when used to further profit-orientated or practical/political agendas, thereby contributing to ill-health.
Modern Lifestyle - Excesses and Sedentary Activity Levels
The modern lifestyle encourages sedentary behaviour, not only through bad habits, but directly through its culture and practicality. Long working hours at desk jobs and lack of natural movement mean most people not only become "unfit" but see a state of real natural human fitness as exceptional. People are designed to have a lot more fitness, flexibility, and natural control and use of their bodies than the average person would dream of. Gyms are a poor substitute for the rigours of natural movement, and the result is a population struggling to keep themselves in healthy condition.
Not only pizza and burgers are a hazard to health, but most fine dining, if indulged in regularly does exactly the same thing. (despite the more natural content, these meals are still high in fat and calories.) Heart disease, obesity, diabetes, are all results of our lifestyle, but even without these, many people who would consider themselves healthy, are in fact in very poor condition simply due to their lack of appropriate movement.
Alcohol on the other hand, has been around for much longer than modern technology.
Modern society supports our wants, but is negligent towards our needs.
Standardised Availability of Education
Due to the demands of modern society's structure, education needs to be widespread to produce the necessary number of specialists to fill the required jobs. This education is therefore necessary and beneficial to society, and to maintaining the standard of living supported by modern society. However, to make this work, the school system is more of a socialization process than an education process, which channels people into appropriate fields of speciality and strongly enforces conformity in individuals. Although there are rewards; prestige, increased access to material rewards, for those who do well at this, this cog-in-wheel mentality fails to treat students as individuals or recognise individual needs and differences, and can put heavy demands on students' personal welfare. Psychological problems are widespread.
University students are also culturally subjected to extremes of an unhealthy lifestyle as they are introduced to this by their peers, risking long-term health problems including liver damage and alcoholism. Education as we manage it is beneficial to society, and therefore to supporting the individual's modern living standard, but detrimental to the personal development of the individual.
Anti-work attitudes towards children have protected them from exploitation and dangerous environments, however, this has also meant a strong work ethic and sense of independence and capability has not been forged in the current generation of many westernised countries. People often have little self-discipline and remain innocent and childlike later in life. The individual has an easy and protected life, however, this naivety could prove potentially damaging to the development of society as a whole.
Psychological problems.
Modern society has created both a high-pressure living environment and a value system which appears to be prone to resulting mental illness. People, as thinking, feeling beings have probably always experienced psychological distress in some shape or form. However, in addition to the usual experiences of violence and bereavement, modern society adds values which define worth in terms such as thinness for example, causing anorexia, and pressures to conform leading to the invention of psychiatric disorders. (bear in mind, psychiatric disorders are not simple cut and dry facts like a broken leg, but are classifications invented by professionals in an attempt to treat psychologically distressed individuals.) Many aspects of modern society are potentially damaging psychologically.
To wrap things up...
In general, our society has developed to favour protection over proficiency or practicality, and wants over needs. Diseases wiped out by modern living and technology have been replaced in prevalence by those often caused and contributed to by it. In a practical sense, people are no more disease prone, because modern technology and living standards protect them from it, though less well-trained immune systems may well mean that in actual terms, people are more disease-prone, and therefore weaker. Our value systems often mean people are self-conscious and psychologically vulnerable.
So I can quite clearly come down on the side of Yes; Modern Living has made the people weak, unhealthy and disease-prone. So what can/do we do about it? Should we all go back to living without modern society? This isn’t of course, entirely feasible; the earth is massively overpopulated and the society, (and therefore the lifestyle) we have today, is a reaction to solve this overpopulation problem; a society which has developed to function living as we do today. There are clear advantages to modern living, and clear disadvantages. We need to question how we can evaluate the positives and negatives whilst being open enough to restructure not only our lifestyle and policies, but even our morals, objectives, and values, to emphasise and capitalise on the positives whilst eliminating as many of the negatives as possible. After all, what are we kidding ourselves that we as a race are trying to achieve, if not the best possible for ourselves?
Modern living made people disease prone. It makes our life easy and reduces our work by giving us modern gadgets . We are living sedentary life style . Children spend their free time with computer chatting in internet .I believe that yes modern living has made people weak and unhealthy
Yes,modern lifestyle has made the people weak and unhealthy.. Now a days modern living for so many people means adopting western culture, smoking, drinking etc..This has been affecting teenagers all over the world to a very large extent moreover it has led to lots of diseases like cancer, nervous breakdown etc.. Todays life is full of stress,tension,worries etc.. So to escape from all these most of the people find alcohols as a reducing agent to worries.. According to me alcoholism is an escapism.. But this escapism leads nowhere other than to death.. Now a days most of the people have obesic because of wrong food habits and consumption of junk food daily.Now a days eating home made food is considered as something bad.. Which is considered below dignity by many.. Most of the people wants to be recognised as a modern being. So the ways they find to become modern is pretty much dangerous like now eating pizzas is considered much more than eating home made fried rice and it has become unavidable for many of the teenagers to be at night clubs rather than staying at home.. Such people will suffer much more than others from nervous breakdowns and will create unwanted stresses among children..which will lead to lack of excellence in studies. About people working in IT institutions,the case is same.. They will be sitting in front of computers for long hours hence wont be able to take food in at regular times and they might also be made to work over night which can lead to lack of sleep.. And eye sight problems etc.. Lack of sleep will gradually make the person hyperactive and that person will often be seen tired...
Modern life has started with the very begining of the industery ;which are the bigest soruce of pollution.thus for all the comfort we have ,wehave to pay our health
Just as a coin has two sides,modern life also has two faces.On one hand,our quality of life has improved and life expectancy has increased due to better health care facilities.But we can also notice that most of the people who are leading a long life are not healthy. They suffer from BP,diabetes,cholestrol and many other diseases.They are depending upon medicines to live.The children of this era lack immunity or resistive power since they visit the doctor even for a minor cough. The main reason for poor health is our food habits{fast food} , lack of proper exercises and the unhygienic and polluted envirnment .Poor health among lower sections of society is due to lack of proper and efficient implementation of govt policies.So , the solution is to change our food habits, take regular exercise and try to create a clean environment.Development is inevitable,but it should be sustained.The plans and policies of govt should reach all the sections of the society
Yaa I am also in favour of that modern living has bad effects on us.but we can't also ignore the benefits of modern living which makes us developed and cultured to live in this modern world.
Yes you are right. Modern living affects us to a large degree.
Pollution, smoke and toxic of factories, unhealthy food like fast food, technologies, laser. even the seas are becoming baskets for garbage and so the fish would be unhealthy. The same is true for other animals whose food is not natural
Every thing natural has faded away to be replaced by artificiality!!!!!
Modern Lifestle has made people disease prone . One clear evidence of this is the increasingly growing rate of cardiac problems in cities. People in villages are a lot more immune . Even children have turned into couch potatoes sitting in front of the T.V or the computer. The true physical exercise has all been deplitted.
Modern living has not made the people weak , unhealthy n disease prone . It is we who had ruined ourselves and the environment. If you use the modern technologies wisely and if you are well educated and sensible you may not fear for your health etc.
Modern Living really has so many disadvantages,but it also gives us convenient life,isn't it?Think of this,if you lived in ancient times,what would you feel when you see modern life?
Yes I think so.modern living makes people weak even with the good nutrition some how
here in Morocco ,when I go to the countryside,I notice that all its people are very strong,Their food are natural 100 % and very very healty plus the nature that helps them a lot in the psychological side.sometimes when I go to countryside and spend lot time there, I feel better and stronger,I eat a lot and I feel great happiness .Modern living somehow is not good for living,Noises,overcrowded, the stress of work , pollution,bad food ( fast food, caned food) all are bad for the health, and they make the person have great ability to get dangerous diseases such cancer and so on.my piece of advice is to live near the city 20 km far for instance,in beautiful house with great landscape and nature and try to eat 100% natural food ,I am sure your health will last for a long
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Yes, modern living has made the peoples of india prone to different types of diseases because now a days we people are only depending on western models.This made a huge loss to our health.Because of increase in transportation it made the fresh air into polluted air.On these days we become very lazy and every thing is done by the modern technology.So in my view the modern living has made indians prone to diseases.
What about vaccines? A disease which could killed hundreds is now unheard of.!
But in the end , you have to choose between a stronger though less knowledgeable generation, and a generation plagued with sickness but with increased capacity to deal with it, though superficially.
No modern living has not made the people of india weak.unhealthy and disease prone actually it is helping us to live a more comfortable life and it is curing our diseases.
I think it has made us weak and unhealthy but that is not enough reason to completely avoid living modernly. Indians today are more knowledgeable about various diseases and know how to combat them.we are more socially connected through sites such as Facebook, Orkut etc and help us connect with our family living far away .we live comfortably .And living modernly does not even affect the whole modern living population.
And face it ,who wants to live in villages,when we have the ability to live much more comfortably.
So why don't all hypocrites on this page run off to some village and live a unhappy but disease protected healthy and strong life??
Stop pretending.
Period
Actually I need some against.why all say for the the motion .modern living is a boon rather than a liability.if used in a correct way,it can help human for a vast extent.
Yes modern living has made the people unhealthy an disease prone.nowadays we can see children who take daily insulin for dibatics. In the 20th century india such disease were unfamilier.now 400 out of every thousand children suffer from such diseases
No I can't agree with this the modern living helped us to combat many serious threats to the health of individuals..because eventough some are contracted with diseases we can't blame the modern living..its the individual who chooses his fate..vishak
Yes I agree with this topic that modern life style is making people unfit and unhealthy we blame the modern living for diseases because some diseases are new in this world . Shilpa kapoor .
I strongly oppose that Modern living has made the people of india weak,unhealthy and disease prone. I feel very strongly that modern living has made India strong. Year by Year our life expectancy is growing as mentioned in the graph. Economic development is growing by years, there is constant growth of population. Literacy rate is growing year by year.
I support the motion that India is not becoming weak and unhealthy. Nowadays people are having the knowledge how to protect themselves; they know the precautions to be taken when, after, before a disease occurs. The modern day has better doctors who can help change the society, they know the perfect way to treat people when they are suffering. The modern day has fast communications, and vast technologies to change the way of living. The present day food items might be unhealthy, but not all of them, some food items are so healthy that they give us much calcium and much more energy.
I wholeheartedly support that the modern day living has made us think to find a better way survival, it is that we can nearly predict future with science and technology. With the help of science and technology we find the precautions to be taken. The modern day living has been fit for better survival. The present day uses mineral water which is quite healthy. The present day uses AC for constant cool temperature. The modern day knows the things which are are harmful and unhealthy. We get everything we need. Better computer facilities, educational facilities etc
I submit that there is nothing better than modern living
If you stongly want to know the advantages plz try asking the question advantages and disadvantages of science and technology, if you get the article then your problem is finished.
Hey I don't agree as modern living has very well supported indians in fighting diseases and now there are a large no. Of doctors and moreover education has improved a lot.
The factors that are responsible for making us weak,unhealthy & disease-prone are internal aswell as external.our food habits and life-style which are gradually being shaped after the west and are leading the nation to the brink as far as health is concerned.the fast food we get are stale,impure and adulterated.
Medical science has reached such a great perfection today than almost so called incurable diseases have been cured. Some diseases are still there which are very l being very low in number than early time yhat cannot be cure , but the researches are still in progress. To sum it all up peple are more healthy
Modern living has not at all made us disease prone and unfit. In todays world, modern technology is very important. Without it, its difficult to carry out our life. Today uncurable diseases have become curable. By the click of a button we can do things in a jiffy. What else do we want?
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