Most of us confort ourselves in our own ways. Like when I enter my room I throw the bag at one corner and sit in the sofa with one leg over the arm of the chair. Others have different ways of comforting themselves. Now if we have a design that’s something like white sofas n glass tables all around with all precious items we wouldn’t be free to move about at all. We would have to do everything carefully And formally. Changing our lifestyle itself. So is not important for us to take into aspect the dimension of designing for comfort , lifestyle n other stuff along with the planning n aesthetics.
Life style is a very important issue that has to, has to, be considered. One of my teacher in coll, in one of my earlier semester, was talking about design of the bath room.A person might have a bath standing up, or sitting down or even lying down, coming to think of it.So unless we design it perfectly for them, it'll always be a compromise. we have to Justify our use of our design ideas in their life. if they accept, then we go ahead. If not, we either think of something else, or try more to convince them.
In this world as we are ready to accept the differences, we can’t go away from the reality. Terrorism and Fanatics are reality and you can’t ignore them. You can’t have dream of challenge-free Global world/lifestyle. Your lifestyle is a reflection of your personality, and your personality is the reflection of society around you. It's all interconnected and any vision of Global lifestyle is imperfect without considering those aspect of society.Hypothetically you can have nice dream of Global world/lifestyle. But reality is different. And our problem is we got to stay with the reality. We dont have another choice!!!
We need to have,
- american liberty
- german efficiency
- indian spiritiualism
- french food
- british nothing
- brazilian carnivals
- italian arts
Lifestyle diseases
I've lately been finding quite a few people with lifestyle diseases like hypertension (BP), increased blood sugar, back & neck problems, carpal tunnel syndrome, etc. Especially, we seem to be susceptible to most if not all of these due to the nature of the jobs we do. Are you seeing this pattern?6 pack was also a life style disease! You've to starve, live and work out in near death conditions to get that. But in general what you said is true, we've a lot of those people and the tomorrow’s kids will have a lot of corporal tunnel related issues, thanks to Wifi, Xbox, iphone and facebook games.I have terrible back and neck pain.I think it's lack of physical activity[ jogging, skipping, walking] which is the main problem.
Only good thing is I have a good control over my food habits. I have a pretty good breakfast oatmeal+1 and a half walnuts, 3 almonds, 2 dry-figs. Lunch is usually light; say 2 chapattis or some pasta or some rasam/curd/sambar+rice and dinner is usually curd rice. I love sprouts and I am made to eat fruits. So that is pretty good, I believe. To Blood problems and sugar problems, many in my family are victims. The increasing diseases is freaky. People literally drop dead.The traditional TamBrahm diet is rice based, no doubt. Eating this is fine if it is also accompanied by the kind of physical work that our elders did. Earlier, idli/dosi/ adai maavu used to be ground in old machine which is now replaced by grinders. All the various spices were ground in a old machine named ammi kallu, which is now replaced by mixie. My very orthodox grandmother ground all the flour at home in a machine. Washing of clothes is now done by a washing machine. I remember, as long as my grandmother was alive, food was cooked only on fuel , certainly a lot more tedious to get going compared to lighting a gas stove, by just the click of a gas lighter. In earlier times, no servants could enter the kitchen and so at the end of the day, the women of the house had to clean the kitchen . All these involved hard physical work. In addition, red or unpolished rice was eaten everyday and only when some guests were expected, white or polished rice was served. Now it is difficult to get unpolished rice which is so much healthier than polished white rice. With changing times, we must also change our eating habits if we want to remain fit by including more chapattis and salads in our diet. We can certainly cut down on fast foods.
Some of the traditional custom like having nellikai pachidi and aathi keerai on dwadashi is now considered to be nutritionally very superior!! Earlier, people walked everywhere. If the distance was long, they would take a bus. Now, even for going short distances, people use their 2 wheelers. No wonder, there is an increase in life style diseases. We have largely brought it on ourselves.Its really pathetic when you see people spending their hard earned money to doctors for curing diseases."Earn early, retire early" has become mantra of today's lifestyle. But, is there quality in lifestyle we are living?spouses have become more of a competitor to another partner rather than complimenting him/her. I dont think food has a major effect on carrying lifestyle disease. Even the best of fitness freak gets these disease because of stress.
One of my company's marketing manager got heart attack and died at an age of 31 (he was so healthy till the last day before he collapsed).Pressure is it really worth getting paid for handling pressure situations? Are we not compromising health for the sake of money?women are hard core materialistic as opposed to men who are loving, giving and so self sacrificing that it makes me want to die of shame .what has materialistic got to do with lifestyle diseases..
Yogas are a great stress buster and veggie is good. but hey most women in India suffer from osteoporosis, slip disc and other bone related issues due to poor calcium intake . vegetarian food unfortunately isn’t the best source of calcium) and protein too (plant protein, except for mushrooms isn’t easily digested by the body as its cellulose bound and isn’t easily digested. so it should be a balance of both.
I’m surprised that women are more prone to lifestyle diseases. over the years the number of women holding stable jobs and earning well has increased greatly. on the other hand they still have to go around with their 'age old responsibilities' like children, cooking, household maintenance and so on.I prefer A life style in which religions do not interfere with governance or culture or any other public sphere but is restricted to a personal communication between individual and God without the mediation of middlemen.