Drastic effects of rapid Industrialization on social and physical health
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Industrialization has completely changed the life of mankind, people work like machines and increasing pollution is the mother of many newly emergent diseases. To combat these negative effects of industrialization we should find solutions in Ayurveda and Yoga.
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The industrial growth in our country has been the fall-out of western nations’ industrial development. Although, it took almost a century but now ill effects of this industrial development are evident on our social and economical structure. Small towns are turning in big cities and cities are now metropolitans. The lower classes started migrating to big towns to earn livelihood as laborers, as economical condition was very weak and gap between financial condition and burden of responsibilities and expenditure grew very wide. Hence, they were left with no alternative. This trend of migration from villages and small towns slowly developed, which ultimately proved detrimental to the concept of joint families. Thus, a new concept of a family unit developed, which included parents and their children only. This social change is an important step in generating tension as the environment of this central unit of a family, settled in big cities is different from the natural and free social set-up of villages. The major difference is despite many shortcomings in joint families each member of the family had emotional and economical security. But now in the new concept the emotional safety of family in urban areas has diminished. Whenever any family faces any problem and need emotional support, they find themselves helpless.
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“Another ill-effect of this industrial growth was population blast in these big towns, which ultimately resulted into many diseases as the resources are limited but population grew many times more. The paucity of resources led to poor living standard as the family is bound to live in very small area, full of filth. This caused environmental pollution, sentimental pollution besides economical problem. And this generated sense of insecurity in the human being and ultimately, people took support of intoxicants and drugs. It has resulted in sense of insecurity and weakness of the mind of the people.� Acharya Balkrishna
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Thus, it is clear that the new social structure, caused due to boom in industrialization, destruction of joint families and large-scale migration of village population to urban areas has impact on the human being. This complex social, economical and spiritual change had impact on the human psychology, who felt much more insecure than ever before.
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This tension has cast impact on the population. In 19th century and beginning of 20th century, infection caused more deaths but by the end of 20th century, tension generated diseases have grown-up. Large number of people are suffering from Hypertension, Diabetes, Obesity, Hearth ailments, Stomach and cholesterol related diseases. Tension is the mother of all diseases. Yoga, balanced diet and calculated life could lead to healthy and peaceful life.