Is Modern living leading to a ‘hidden epidemic’ of neurological disease?

Nisarg Joshi

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Yes! Admit it! Your present artificial life is varied degree of neurosis!

Wise and peaceful world cannot emerge from modern western life style. Never.

Wake up. Listen to our future generations, those already born and those yet to take birth. They all want us to stop gifting them breeding environment of mental and physical disorders.


Research


https://research.bournemouth.ac.uk/2015/08/is-modern-living-leading-to-a-hidden-epidemic-of-neurological-disease/

Is modern living leading to a hidden epidemic of neurological disease?

The nature of any environmental factors are uncertain but there have been major environmental changes; including increased population, economic activity, substantial rises in road and air travel; increased home technology involving background electromagnetic fields (mobile phones, microwave ovens, computers), which are unique to these later years and these possible environmental factors cannot be ignored, especially as they probably interact.[ 6 10 27 28 33 ] This list of possible features might be described as “modern living” and the USA is the epitome of “modern living.”

Published in the USA journal Surgical Neurology International the study compared 21 Western countries between 1989 and 2010 and found that dementias are starting a decade earlier than they used to in adults.

Furthermore deaths caused by neurological disease have risen significantly in adults aged 55-74, and for adults 75+ the rate has virtually doubled in every Western country in just the last 20 years.

In the US, the problem is particularly acute; neurological deaths in male over 75s have nearly trebled and females rose more than five-fold.

For the first time since records began, more elderly US women died of brain disease than cancer.

Professor Colin Pritchard of Bournemouth University led the study said “The rate of increase in such a short time suggests a silent or even a `hidden’ epidemic, in which environmental factors must play a major part, not just ageing. Modern living produces multi-interactional environmental pollution but the changes in human morbidity, including neurological disease is remarkable and points to environmental influences”.

Professor Prichard continued, “Furthermore are the practical implications for families trying to cope as front-line services are being swamped. For example, the remarkable increase in Motor Neurone Disease in the UK, as well as the earlier dementias. Exemplified in a new charity `Young Dementia UK, who report that many of their clients are in their late 40’s and early 50’s- something unthinkable twenty years ago”

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