Hypo-Kinetic Disease
The world hypokinetic is a derivative of hypo, meaning less, and kinetic meaning movement. Hypokinetic diseases are, therefore, illnesses that result from a lack of excises or having fewer physical activities. The disorders include diabetes, stroke, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and heart diseases. However, body activities are only part of the causes of other factors such as drug use, nutrition, and hereditary mediate chronic diseases (Cardinal 55). Physical activity is essential to acquire, maintain, and restore the health of individuals. They facilitate neuroplasticity, which is the brains’ ability to form neural connections, including white matter integrity (Mandolesi et al. 510). Lack of physical activities, as a result, leads to reduced release of neurotic factors, reduces blood flow, and the benefit of lipid and glucose food in the brain (Mandolesi et al. 510). The effects impact brain activities and others like metabolic processes, which depend on the brain. Bodies with fewer activities have less breakdown of food into energy, impacting the production of fat that accumulates along the arteries and muscles. Such fact affects bone brittleness and size of the arteries impacting other diseases, for example, Osteoporosis. The affected brain also leads to neurodegenerative diseases, for example, Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses that the brain would have prevented under normal conditions.
In this case, I use a comparison of my life with that of a family member to show how physical activities and nutrition differ and interplays, leading to hypokinetic diseases. My relative who older than me like sugary snacks like cakes and takes them during breakfast and sometimes in the evening. I, on the other hand, prefer direct farm products such as arrowroots and ground nuts and hardly takes such sugary snacks. The sugary snacks add excess glucose in the body while lowering brain functionality. In case of a slight illness, she is up to the hospital for drug prescription while I use other non-medical means such as eating fruits, water, and exercises to overcome some illness and minimize drug intake. The relative also, although she has a white-collar home based job, she relaxes by watching TV and can only walk for not more than half an hour. I ensure that I walk over one hour despite my work, which is more physical involving less sitting. In general, my relative takes sugary food with fewer activities while I consume less such food with more body activities.
The relative was diagnosed with diabetes type 2. Diabetes is a disease characterized by having too much blood glucose due to failed insulin regulation. In type 2 diabetes, the body does not produce enough or any insulin-making its unable to convert blood glucose into energy (Zhao et al. 2). Excess blood sugar is a risk to health and has chances of affecting any body part. Diabetes type 2 is a lifestyle disease, although there are other risk factors unrelated to nutrition and excises. Daily habits leading to illness include stress, smoking, too much or too little sleep, and low physical activities (Zhao et al. 3). Less physical activities lead to accumulated glucose because the muscles are using very little. Body cells become insensitive to insulin because of less activity in arousing it to make more energy leading to diabetes type 2. Obesity, which also results from poor nutrition and lack of excises is a risk factor to the illness. Other risk factors unrelated to lifestyle include prediabetes, heart disease, and family history in diabetes.
Works Cited
Cardinal, Bradley J. “Toward a greater understanding of the syndemic nature of hypokinetic diseases.” Journal of Exercise Science & Fitness 14.2 (2016): 54-59.
Mandolesi, Laura, et al. “Effects of physical exercise on cognitive functioning and wellbeing: biological and psychological benefits.” Frontiers in psychology 9 (2018): 509.
Zhao, Yingzheng, et al. “Type 2 diabetes mellitus-disease, diagnosis, and treatment.” J Diabetes Metab 6.533 (2015): 2.