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Awareness of Lifestyle Disorders MODULE-3
Holistic Health

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AWARENESS OF LIFESTYLE Note

DISORDERS

Read an incident about how health issues were resolved through active lifestyle
and yog.

Amit’s father was facing age-related health problems especially high blood sugar,
obesity and hypertension etc. along with sleeping disorders. His doctor advised
active lifestyle. Amit wanted to know more about active lifestyle. He consulted
physical education teacher regarding his father’s problems because once he had
discussed this topic in his physical education class. Teacher agreed to meet his
father at home and during the meeting he suggested his father to start regular
exercise or walking for at least one hour along with regular yog practice. His
father started active lifestyle and was regular for the yog sessions, after few
months his above mentioned problems were reduced and he started enjoying a
healthy life.

This made his relatives and neighbors curious to know more about the ways and
means to improve quality of life and reduce lifestyle disorders without medicine.
In this chapter, you will read about the concept of life and how to manage lifestyle
disorders through active lifestyle, exercise and yog.

OBJECTIVES

After studying this lesson, you will be able to:

explain the concept of quality of life;
explain the factors affecting quality of life;

classify physical and psychological disorders;
learn the management skills of lifestyle disorders and

practise yog in day to day life.

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