Hi, everyone! My name is Lu, from Kinesiology140 of SFU. My blog will concentrate on the health issue about chronic disease which is a truly threaten to our health but easily ignored, like an invisible killer. Chronic disease, according to wikipedia, is defined as a disease that is long-lasting or recurrent, the duration of which can last for more than 3 moths or it can relaspe repeatedly, with periods remission in between.
First, to emphasize its urgency, I would like to present you some shocking data: chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, are by far the leading cause of mortality in the world, representing 60% of all deaths. Out of the 35 million people who died from chronic disease in 2005, half were under 70 and half were women. (World Health Organization, 2011). And things get even worse inChina
Furtuher, we can see it clearly from this diagram above that the number of American people suffer from chronic diseases is on the sharp rise from 1995 to 2010. Finally in Canada, chronic diseases are projected to account for 89% of all deaths.(World Health Organization,2005). Shocking right? Chronic disease is not like incurable diseases but it dose account for a large percentage of deaths in the world.
First, to emphasize its urgency, I would like to present you some shocking data: chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, are by far the leading cause of mortality in the world, representing 60% of all deaths. Out of the 35 million people who died from chronic disease in 2005, half were under 70 and half were women. (World Health Organization, 2011). And things get even worse in
Furtuher, we can see it clearly from this diagram above that the number of American people suffer from chronic diseases is on the sharp rise from 1995 to 2010. Finally in Canada, chronic diseases are projected to account for 89% of all deaths.(World Health Organization,2005). Shocking right? Chronic disease is not like incurable diseases but it dose account for a large percentage of deaths in the world.
Second, Chronic diseases can disturb people through nearlly all ages, especially, starting from adolescence and when people get older, they face more and more challenge, pressure and setbacks, which can change our mood, lifestyle, and finally our body. So the target audiences of my blog, as mentioned above, are expected to be all of you, particularly those aged from late teenage to mid-life.
Finally, the reason why I chose this topic is that I’ve been suffering from chronic enterogatritis myself and I know how it influences my life and that I’m not the only one. So, by posting my blogs, I want people to pay attention to the importance of chronic diseases, get more information about the potential causes, know the effect and learn how to deal with it by changing our lifestyle and receiving treatment. In my following blogs, I will specifically talk about the causes of several typical chronic diseases and how to treat them as well.
All in all, the chronic diseases is threatening our health today, with people from a large range of ages involved. It influences our health so badly that we should keep an eye on it and do learn the causes and some skills to keep away from those diseases. Additional, we should be careful when we search for relevant information, because fake or wrong information is not only unhelpful but likely to mislead and get in the way of our pursuit for living a healthy life.
