The discovery of antibiotics and advent of modern medication was no less than a messainic miracle that helped to raise the life expectancy rates around the globe.
There was a considerable decline in the mortality rates marked with an amelioration in quality of life and hygiene. Human lives were transformed on colossal scales.
Though the spread of many vicious diseases and their related acuteness was controlled to a greater extent, still something else kept lurking and ready to barge in this short triumph over diseases.
The era of malady categorised as ‘conditions’ began to surface from almost every developed country in the wake of the twentieth century.
Earlier, the basic cause of death due to any sickness was always connected with malnutrition and even starvation at times, but with the betterment in the standards of living everything changed.
The people now suffer because of excess access to nutritious food. Moreover, the emergence of ‘Rich Man Diseases’ is also linked to peculiar food habits that are predominantly related with a recently developed obsession towards junk food.
Besides, the crops grown with an aid of chemical fertilizers leave disastrous effects on our bodies that sometime may even evolve into a myriad of fatal diseases.
Kashmir valley has also witnessed this enormous transition in food habits where within just thirty years, the people especially youth have jumped from traditionally baked bread to chilli pizzas.
Youngsters seem to be more inclined towards the junk and street foods that on one hand being unhygienic also give birth to various excruciating ailments.
Yet we may take a lenient approach towards this virulent trend but its repercussions are highly catastrophic.
Due to such abnormal changes in the choice of food, Kashmir remains a hot spot for cancer cases from almost the last two decades where most of the patients have reported to be suffering from stomach cancers. Besides it, diabetes, cholesterol and obesity are silently getting a social acceptance as if it is something normal.
Within the next ten years, the health emergencies would be record breaking unless we mend our food habits and try to get ourselves accustomed to a healthy nutritional diet.
