How has mordern living made us weak, unhealthy & disease prone?

Question

Where is insecticides, pollution, unhealthy drinks, junk foods, etc taling us to?

junk food, pollution, diseases, unhealthy drinks

I say we must go back to green earth friendly living.

Answer 1

You are right there are many modern living items that are not in our best interests.
As we all should know by now fast food isn't healthy food, it is just fast.
We have a society that is moving at such a fast pace it has forgotten to look at the big picture. There is a saying, "haste makes waste". We can not keep living for the day, we have to live for the future. We can do this by learning to protect what we have and work at ways to repair the damage of the past. This will take increased physical labor and time but isn't working for a better world for future generations what we should have been doing in the first place. What are we working for if not to make a better life for our family's. Slow down look at what you are using and doing and ask yourself these questions: Is this good for our environment? Is this safe to feed my family? Is this chemical safe for my children? Is there a safer way to do this? All questions that can be answered by opening a book or two. Yes, this will take more time, but isn't you family worth it? We have to educate ourselves with better alternatives.

Answer 2

I'm not sure modern living is the real culprit here. Societies atitudes are more at the root cause. We as a society want everything now, where we are now is a prime example. If you want an answer to a question you can jump on line go to Yahoo and ask people from all over the world. We feel like we need to make more money, which requires us to work more hours, which leads to less time for exercise and proper meals. Instead of preparing a meal for a couple of hours, sitting down at the table with the family we run to the drive thru ad grab a "value meal" for the family. So much for healthy eating and living.

The other thing that "moder living" has done is that the majority of people are living longer thanks in large part to the advances in medicine. This has been a good thing for most, but along with that we've found "disorders" that never existed before and now have a large section of the population that is medicated for one thing or another. I guess that is up to the individual whether they think that is good or not.

Answer 3

Modern living has given us everything we want, whenever we want, and more than we actually need. I feel that modern living has made us a weak society by taking away real, get-hands-dirty work to get what we want. The products available today are more of a quick fix to what people really don't "need". The unhealthy part is a growing problem as we have the biggest problem of obesity in the world. Food is like money and "things" in this country. We want more than we need. I have been guilty of this, and had consequences I did not enjoy in the long run. When we are a society of unhealthy, glutinous, vain people with all our botox, face lifts, and such it's only natural that our natural bodies will retaliate. The earth is here for us, and I believe we are here to take care of the earth, but are doing just as much damage to the earth as we do to ourselves. Some of that damage is permanent, and at the cost of our health, and someday our earth if we don't wise up and start taking care of it. Is "more than we need" really worth taking away a better world for our children and their futures?

Answer 4

Mother nature's system has most inhabitants obtain their food by gathering or capturing it in the wild, and then chewing on it. When some animals like to add an extra step, for example, racoons dipping their food into streams or flys regurgitating digestive acids, man king seems to have a tendancy to add an extra mile of steps.

If we grew our fruit in our own yards, or made a trade at a local market, we would be eating a better product. Home grown farmers devote more attention to their produce and prefer not use all the unecessary chemicals and fertilizers as they do in farms that grow for conglomerate suppliers.

Chemicals, processes, preservatives, additives- they're all unecessary and you can buy food without them any where, even in the biggest of cities. At market stands in Philly, you can buy produce fresh from an Amish farm located an hour away- and it's cheaper too. In New York there are stands on the streets all over China town, little Italy, and many other neighborhoods, you just have to look.

Not to mention, buying unprocessed food let's you do more of the process, as healthy as you want. Doing processes like these keeps people active, another promotion for healthiness. If we simply ate our food from scratch like they did half a century ago, allthe way back since the dawn of man, there wouldn't be a problem.

Answer 5

You're right and wrong at the same time. If you think of things on an individual basis.. then, yes individuals are physically weaker and more prone to sickness because of pollution, insectisides, antibiotics, etc. etc.. But you've also got to look at the large scale effect. The pollution is bad for us and the environment, but these industries that create pollution are also giving millions of jobs to American workers. These workers use the money they make to buy food and produce products that make life easier for everyone. The insectisides are used by farmers to decrease the amount of insects that eat their crop. Which in turn, leaves us with more food and less starving people. As for the U.S.'s health-conciousness: the life expectency of a healthy, non smoking adult in the U.S. is in their 90's. This is due to the medication and healthcare that was unavailable to previous generations. Antibiotics/ vaccines allow people to live through things that would have otherwise KILLED them. Example: the Tetanus shot, smallpox vaccine, aspirin, etc. Americans have a weaker immune system, and are physically weaker in general than in previous generations in exchange for a longer, healthier, easier life. Not such a bad deal if you ask me.

Answer 6

One of the biggest problems, and not one a lot of people know about, is that unless you buy Green products, everything that you use on a daily basis, toothpaste, deoderant, shampoo, soaps, laundry, dish and dishwasher detergent,even VITAMINS, Window and Floor cleaners, Carpet cleaners, and even Furniture polish...ALL contain TOXIC chemicals! Including ALL baby and children's products! Everything listed above (plus many more) contain Formaldahyde. It's a great preservative that the FDA requires (one of the FEW requirements!!) that they hold all the manufacturing companies to! As we all know, Formaldahyde is used to preserve dead bodies. Why the HECK are we putting it in our hair, in our mouths, breathing it in in our cleaning supplies, and absorbing it through our skin? WHY DOES THE FDA, whos is supposed to be there for our PROTECTION, MAKE THEM use it? Because no one knows how long the products will be on the shelves, or waiting in homes, until they are used. There are some GREAT "Green", completely SAFE, Natural, AFFORDABLE products out there...
Not only are the Toxic Chemicals dangerous and sometimes deadly to us, they aren't good for the environment either! Those Chemicals can go into the water supply, soak into the earth....scientists are studying further, to see what effect the chemicals have on plants, trees, grass, wildlife. The FDA does NOT require the manufacturing companies to put a list of ingredients on their packaging, and if they did, most people wouldn't know that most of those items were poisoing us. It's no wonder that in the last 10 years, ADD, ADHD, Asthma and all the different types of childrens and adult Cancers, Alzheimers, etc have risen on the average of 20%! Just walking down the cleaning aisle at a grocery store, and your nose and sometimes eyes, let you know where you are-you can smell it! This is called "out-gassing"...and it continues once you get the products home, but it isn't as noticable, because you don't have as many different products/smells bombarding you at the same time. If any of you are seriously interested in finding out what Toxic Chemicals you have in your house, go to:
www.notoxins.info, and you can go on a house tour, and see what you have that is slowly hurting you and your family...

Answer 7

Modern living has turned us all into lazy people. Everything we've ever needed is right there. Too lazy to cook? Have a fast-food burger. Didn't get enough sleep? Have a Monster or one of those energy drinks. There's a way out for everything now. People are also becoming rude and rebellious...everyone's getting sued for stupid things. If someone in front of you is driving slower than you, 'HONKKKKKKK!!" and give them the finger as you drive by. What happened to "good morning, ma'am" from a stranger? Now it's called flirting! haha Anyway, I'm so disgusted with what we've become, I wish I could live back in the days when children respected their elders even if they weren't your parents. Now, if you tell a kid to stop hitting another kid, his mother will cuss you out......orrr maybe all of this is only happening here in Los Angeles....

Answer 8

Yes, the modern living has definitely made evry one weak.

We want to eat unhealthy food, because its fast and easy.
We dont want to walk, atleast to check out mails...we use the car.
We spend so much time working and making money, but forget that we will get sick anduse this hard earned money for medicines.
We dont care about pollution or plastic disposal that is causing so much mess arond the world.

Not too many people think about small things that everyone can change to create a SUPER change.

Answer 9

I think it is a good idea to go back to green living but to answer you question I see it the same way like video games we are sitting inside eating junk food and wasting energy instead we could be playing outside w/ the house windows open for the breeze to come in instead of running the a/c modern living is killing not only us but the earth!

Answer 10

Modern living has unfortunately made us very lazy, there are easier things than say large homecooked meals, can of soda vs. juice or healthy drinks, children aren't interested in eating, and I don't think that parents are making them eat them or atleast try them which leads to very unhealty eating habits. Also as for pollution in the waters, there are many contributing factors but mostly boaters and their vessels contribute to pollution or farm runoff. Pollutions in the air, come from many vehicles that do not meet emmisions testing and not required to by some states.