lifestyle disease
Habits-caused health condition
A lifestyle disease is a health condition caused primarily by daily habits rather than infection or genetics—poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking, excessive alcohol.
Heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers fall into this category.
The term implies the condition is largely preventable through behavioral changes: Obesity-related lifestyle diseases are straining the healthcare system.
- diabetesMetabolic disorder affecting glucose
- cancerUncontrolled cell proliferation disease
- dietary habitsRegular food intake behaviors
- junk foodLow-nutrition processed snacks
- fast foodSpeedy prepared meals
metabolic syndrome · health disparities · hypertension · couch potato · desk job · screen time · obesity · beer belly · weight gain · high blood pressure · physical activity · comorbidity · risk factors · preventive medicine · health promotion · nutritional disorder · smoking habit · adiposity
- diseasescancer, diabetes, tuberculosis, influenza, measles
lifestyle diseaseinfectious disease
Pathogen-caused transmissible ailment
communicable disease · genetic disease · hereditary disease · inherited disorder · contagious disease
lifestyle diseasehereditary condition
Genetically transmitted health problem
genetic predisposition · congenital abnormality · genetic condition · childhood cancer
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