Effects of modern life style

Nobody can ignore the usefulness of modernization on our daily life, especially
on how much it makes life of humans easier. This is particularly correct about the
new evolution of the new development of medicines, vaccines that save people
from the fatal endemic diseases. On the other hand, Modern life style becomes
more and more an important factor influencing health state of most developed
countries. Unhealthy behaviors responsible for increasing the mortality of the
cardiovascular, cancers, diabetes, and respiratory diseases. There is increasing
evidence that following a healthy lifestyle including appropriate diet, satisfactory
physical activity level, and healthy weight can provide significant cardiovascular
and metabolic benefits. From that we come to a conclusion that different modern
life style patterns affect our health physically, psychologically, and socially. The
main life style patterns that are going to be discussed in this research are the use
of high technology machines, fast foods, advanced transportation, and the use of
the computer including internet and video games that is being used by almost
every member of the family.
The way people eat today is far different the way people ate before. Hundred
years ago people used to include a lot of fruits and vegetables in their diet. This
gives a lot of nutritional value to their meals, and decreases the risk of getting
cardiovascular diseases which is related to the less fat content of these foods.
These days people have very bad nutritional habits, especially with the fast
widespread of fast food culture particularly between young people which they
continue to carry on the same eating habits in their adulthood. According to
Shepherd et al. (2001), the promotion of healthy eating is high on the health
policy agenda in the UK.They mentioned that young people are particularly
important group, as poor eating habits established during teenage years may be
maintained into adulthood, creating a number of cardiovascular and other health
related problems later in life. Ed Edelson (2009) mentioned in his article" that
data from 2003-2006 shows that 11.3 percent of children and teenagers were at
or above the 97th percentile in body mass index for their age". This shows that
overweight teens have a 70 percent chance of becoming overweight adults
(Para.6).The reason for people's poor eating habits is the less time provided by
them to prepare a healthy food which probably would take time. Furthermore,
people dont spent enough time to eat and choose correct and healthy

meals. Everyone is just busy in building their future ignoring the fact that this
might be interrupted by diseases caused by their poor eating habits. Other
reasons include the need for both the man and women to join the work field. This
means that the women will be away from home for long hours and depend on the
fast foods to feed her family. Therefore, children will acquire this habit and they
won't be able to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy food. In addition to
poor eating habits, lack of physical activity is a major problem in this today's life.
That is, if it is together present with the high consumption of fatty foods, they will
lead to disastrous effects on the person's health status. So, maintaining regular
exercise is good for the well being of an individual health and helps prevent so
many heart and metabolic diseases.

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Nowadays, it is an irrefutable fact that our lifestyles have considerably

altered especially during the recent decades. Consequently, an
overwhelming majority of people unanimously suggest that, due to the
lack of enough time children face various difficulties and suffer from
enough care from parents. I am in complete accord with this group of
people about this issue and below I will endeavour to shed some light
on my viewpoint.
First and foremost, in the modern world the role of females in the
society has significantly soared, so both parents work and they can
even be engaged in various jobs simultaneously. Therefore, being busy
with their work prevent them from spending enough time with their
children and having control over them. In order to solve this problem,
in many families children are brought to special places such as
kindergartens. Undeniably, it adversely affects the relationship
between parents and children.
Secondly, as the technology penetrates our lives so exponentially lots
of activities have become available for both parents and children. In
terms of effects on the parents, it is apparent that a great majority of
parents have become addicted to computers or TV, so they spend their
time in front of screens. Such changes in parents attitude produce
negative results for their families, since they cannot interested in their
childrens life so frequently.
However, a considerable number of people unanimously denounce and
claim that even though the modern circumstances give opportunity to
parents to spend only less time with their children, they still try to do
their best for kids. Personally, I take the view that it is a shortsighted
view. Having only few hours together is not a proper solution to this
problem.

To sum up, I feel confident to restate that, in the modern world children
feel neglected because of lack of time.

Modern lifestyles mean that many parents have little time for children. Many children suffer
because they do not get as much attention from their parents as children did in the past. To
what extent do you agree or disagree? You should write at least 350 words.
It is always a controversial matter whether the modern lifestyles bring blessings or curses to
human beings. Many people think that they attribute to the fact that children have to suffer
from the lack of their parents attention. I am personally in favour of this idea for some
reasons stated below.
First of all, it is evident that modern lifestyles do make the children badly influenced. As
parents are too busy earning a living and dealing with other problems of their own, they do
not have enough time to take care of their kids. This leads to childrens being attracted to
other interests such as televisions or the Internet. Consequently, they can be adversely
affected by the violent scenes, the swears or pornographic contents on these things. This
case is much worse when the kids cannot stop immersing more and more in those bad
things because their parents still do not have time to deal with this problem.
Some people may argue that because a couple only have one or two children, and the
standard of living now is far better than it was in the past, parents have much more time to
take care of their kids, and children, therefore, can receive enough attention and affection.
However, it is not the amount but the kind of attention that counts. Parents may care for
their children but not always in the emotional sides. They, actually, spend most of their time
not caring about their kids feelings but worrying about the financial problems, the school
fees or the quality of the household appliances.
Furthermore, the modern lifestyles can also widen the gap between parents and their
offsprings. Mothers and fathers, who do not have time for their kids or who do care for their
children but not in the emotional sides, cannot understand their kids way of thinking.
Additionally, as the children grow up, they may want more privacy and parents taking care
of them too much may not always make them happy but annoyed instead. It turns out that
children may receive parents attention, but this does not help to keep the family close-knit.
In conclusion, I believe that it is the modern lifestyles that steal the time parents spend with
their kids and thus make the children suffer from the lack of parents love. They keep
children away from their parents and deteriorate their relationship.

Definition of modern lifestyle

A way of living of individuals, families (households), and societies, which they manifest in coping with
their physical, psychological, social, and economic environments on a day-to-day basis.
Lifestyle is expressed in both work and leisure behavior patterns and (on an individual basis)
in activities, attitudes, interests, opinions, values, and allocation of income. It also reflects people's
self image or self concept; the way they see themselves and believe they are seen by the others.
Lifestyle is a composite of motivations, needs, and wants and is influenced by factors such as culture,
family, reference groups, and social class

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