Essay On SCIENCE AND OUR HEALTH
Introduction
Progress in science and food technology has really made man’s life easy and comfortable. It is heartening to note that we have now an increased life expectancy. This is because of tremendous progress in medical science. Continuous use of drugs has some side effects. We have increased life expectancy but Man is not at peace with himself. The quality of life has virtually gone downwards. What we need is contentment but this is simply difficult if not impossible in the present times and circumstances, Living under stress, tension, pressure, worries and other related concerns has made life worse than hell. Every sensible man is suffering. The moment one enters the domain of life then one has started thinking. One is never free from the stress. Excess of it results into nervous breakdown. Medical sciences have thought about it and new pills and therapies are on the way to fight against these modern ills, called psychotropic diseases. Insomnia, mental disorders, suicides with mad race of life are the new ‘diseases’ that are rising increasingly. We cannot forget the side effects of the wonder medicines.
Harmful Effects of Repellents, Insecticides and Aerosoles
All know that the female anopheles causes malaria. To fight this deadly mosquito, certain coils are used as repellents. But these have their own side-effects while burning these emit carbon monoxide tar. Continuous exposure to it causes lung diseases and nervous disorders. Other complications may also develop later. Mosquitoes are also killed by spraying house-hold insecticide. These insecticides are essentially poisons. Exposure to them causes headache, dizziness and skin reactions. In addition to these. coils and insecticides, aerosols are also used to kill mosquitoes. These are again not without side-effects. These cause headache, nausea, vomiting and blindness. The best and safe remedy is to stop mosquitoes from breeding by draining away the collected water. Secondly, the doors and windows should be covered with mesh screens.
Harmful Effects of Juices
When people are thirsty, they slake their thirst by taking the sharabat or popular fruit juices. They think that it will make them feel cooler as well. But they do not know that the sweet mosambi juice or grey green sugarcane juice is simply a medium of contracting dysentry, typhoid or jaundice. The press juicing the ‘mosambi’ is unclean and fly-exposed. The sugarcane sticks have been kept floating overnight in dirty water in order to increase their yield. This certainly causes different diseases.
Harmful Effects of Coloured Ice Creams and Spurious Cold Drinks
Some people particularly the school children like the Ice-cream wallahs selling Ice-lollies near school campus because they are unable to buy popular brand of Ice-creams because of cost. These Ice-creams are made in ill-refrigerated places out of dirty ice, skimmed milk powder, flour and harmful colouring. So these cause cancer, brain tumours and damage to the liver. In summer, some cheaters make their own drinks into the bottles of standard companies. These drinks are highly unhygienic. As a result these cause typhoid and dysentry. The best way and the safest way is to avoid such drinks or ice-creams or juice from road side vendors. One must drink only safe and recognized brands. The safest is to carry plain water from home.
Conclusion
Modern living has made the Indians weak, unhealthy and disease prone. Today’s life is full of stress, tension, pressures and worries. These begin right from the stage of child admission in school. The atmosphere of competition, hurried life, uncertainty of future prospects, doubts about success, possibilities of failure etc. cause stress on human mind.
What we eat and how we live are major factors for making us weak and diseases prone. Adulteration, impurities of food articles, irregularity in taking food, wrong habits really make us weak and disease-prone. Air, water and sound pollution is a quick road to diseases. We must have a walk in nature and breathe in clean and fresh air for health.
Vocabulary
Comfortable- easy, Tremendous- extreme, अत्यधिक Virtually- really, वास्तव में Insomnia- loss of sleep, निद्रा का अभाव Particularly- especially, विशेष रूप से। Stress- strain, तनाव, दबाव।
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