City life increases the diversity and risk of diseases
Today, 50 percent of the world's population lives in cities and this rate is increasing. People living in cities are exposed to environmentally harmful substances such as factory waste exhaust gas. Violence, injuries and traffic accidents are among the risks faced in city life. Unhealthy diet with packaged industrial foods, sedentary life in traffic, vehicles and public transportation. All these risk factors pave the way for many diseases. General Surgery Specialist Op. Dr. Yunus Taşçı and Infectious Diseases Specialist. Dr. Mehmet Karabay drew attention to the diseases that increase with city life.
"City life causes obesity"
Op. Dr. Yunus Taşçı said, "With urbanization, we have to go to work far from where we live, we use our own vehicles or public transportation and work longer hours, we lose more time in traffic. We cannot walk, we cannot run, we cannot ride a bike, we cannot do sports. We cannot access healthy and fresh foods, so we turn to packaged ready-made foods. As a result, we become overweight and even obese. "One of the biggest health problems caused by city life is obesity and the diseases caused by obesity," he said.
"Lung, breast and colon cancer are more common in the population living in cities." >
Op states that toxic substances exposed to in city life also cause cancer. Dr. Taşçı said, “Lung, breast and colon cancer are more common in the population living in cities. Air pollution and exposure to cigarette smoke pave the way for lung cancer. Women who become pregnant in their 30s-40s instead of their 20s-30s due to long periods of education and work in city life are at risk of breast cancer. Low age at first pregnancy and breastfeeding is a protective factor in breast cancer.Unhealthy diet, high-calorie, pulp-free foods and obesity also lead to colon cancer. "City life paves the way for cancer," he said.
Infectious diseases still have a great impact on global health and urbanization is now changing the characteristics of these diseases. Infectious Diseases Specialist, who stated that he has changed Dr. Mehmet Karabay said that new megacities can be incubators for new epidemics, zoonotic diseases can spread faster and pose a worldwide threat.
Adequate urban planning and surveillance can be powerful tools to improve global health and reduce the burden of infectious diseases. Emphasizing Expert. Dr. Karabay said, "Lack of infrastructure in cities, unplanned urbanization, poor hygienic conditions, lack of education in cleaning, crowded family members living together, etc. The reasons lay the groundwork for infection. In addition to these, not being able to find enough water and food, not being able to eat a balanced and adequate diet, hunger, air pollution, exposure to industrial and chemical poisons, noise, psychological depression, loneliness, etc. The reasons favor the weakening of the immune system and the increase in infections. "With the use of drugs and changes in sexual behavior patterns as a result of unemployment, economic problems and lack of education, there may be a risk of sexually transmitted diseases," he said.
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