Abstract
Ayurveda is the science of life, guiding in maintaining health and curing of diseases by balancing doshas-dhatus-malas and jatharagni. Ahara, nidra and brahmacharya form the pillars of health as per Ayurveda.
 Lifestyle diseases are those diseases whose occurrence is based on the daily habits of people and are a result of an inappropriate relationship of people with their environment. The main factors contributing to lifestyle diseases include bad food habits, physical inactivity and disturbed biological clock. Occupational lifestyle diseases include those caused by the factors present in the vicinity of pollutants. These factors are also responsible for environmental allergies. So, a healthy lifestyle must be adopted with a proper balanced diet, physical activity and by giving due respect to biological clock.
 Healthy lifestyle methods are now easily achievable with nutritional counselling, exercise training, de-addiction programmes, regular medical check-ups and stress management techniques. Ayurveda provides better solution in the guidelines of proper dietary management, lifestyle advises, panchakarma procedures like detoxification and bio-purification procedures, medicaments and rejuvenation therapies. In this revolutionized era, we cannot stop doing the developmental work, but we can certainly reduce our ailments with simple and effective measures in our lives as suggested in Ayurveda, the science of life.
Highlights
IntroductionAyurveda is the life science with ways to prevent and manage lifestyle diseases
Control and co-ordination are disturbed, it leads to the derangement of lifestyle and results in any of the lifestyle diseases
Uncontrolled urbanization, increased pollution, lack of control over regulation of food quality and contents of adulteration and improper dietary-living pattern disturbing the biological clock, all form the main reasons for occurrence of lifestyle diseases.(8)
Summary
Ayurveda is the life science with ways to prevent and manage lifestyle diseases It provides better solution in the forms of proper dietary management, lifestyle advises, panchakarma procedures like detoxification and bio-purification procedures, medicaments and rejuvenation therapies. Lifestyle of a person is a cumulative product of his physical capacity co-ordinated with psychological functioning, displayed in the form of habits, behaviour, dietary and living pattern. Control and co-ordination are disturbed, it leads to the derangement of lifestyle and results in any of the lifestyle diseases Ayurveda narrated this phenomenon as ‘Prajnaparadha’ (5)There are ample improper actions as an impact of Prajnaparadha which are root causes of various diseases, e.g. Uncontrolled urbanization, increased pollution, lack of control over regulation of food quality and contents of adulteration and improper dietary-living pattern disturbing the biological clock, all form the main reasons for occurrence of lifestyle diseases.(8)
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