Question

What are lifestyle diseases? How are they caused? Name any two such diseases.

Answer 1

Lifestyle diseases

Diseases which are related to daily habits of an individual are referred to as lifestyle diseases.

Reasons

Reasons behind lifestyle diseases are as follows:

• Eating unhealthy food and overeating
• Lack of exercise
• Lack of proper sleep
• Excess consumption of alcohol and drugs under stress

Associated diseases

hypertension and diabetes are two of the lifestyle diseases.