Healthy living research

This essay will analyze how Mark Boyle presents his arguments in the article. Boyle in his article published in 2017 focuses his thoughts on people who prefer living a modern lifestyle characterized by complex technology, fast foods, and prescriptive drugs for treatment over the traditional lifestyle. Mark argues that in the current generation’s inactive lifestyle, diseases which he calls industrial ailments and unhealthy food choices are depleting emotional, physical and mental wellbeing. Furthermore, he criticizes the preventive cautions people take such as spraying surfaces with chemicals and sterilizing surfaces. Mark argues that it is good to live by your principles under all circumstances, whether good or bad. The solutions they prefer to stop the spread of disease are not fulfilling. Illnesses that the body is supposed to fight off naturally have worsened as a result of the introduction of drugs instead of seeking traditional forms of treatment with minimal anti-bacterial resistance.

The wide market for drugs has led to the development of wealthy pharmaceutical companies to mass-produce the drugs to be prescribed to patients globally. The leaders of the companies have convinced people that the only way to get rid of the slightest pain which people would survive easily in the old days is by taking a dose of painkillers. Mark campaigns for traditional lifestyle evidently supported by his younger look at the age of 37 years as compared to the looks of people following modern lifestyles of the same age. Sleep deprivation has been linked to some chronic illnesses in children. It is essential for maintaining a healthy state of mind. Eating foods with a balanced diet is one of the many ways of maintaining a healthy state of the body. The body requires various macronutrients for energy, growth, repair of tissues and for normal functioning.

Healthy diets also decrease the risk of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and obesity. For instance, with improved technology, work that originally required human labor is accomplished using machines. Even walking to our workplaces may not be possible due to the availability of motor vehicles. During these times with improved technology we need to create time for exercise, for example, engaging in sports activities, cycling, hiking, and many more activities. There is a need to balance the type of food we eat in terms of nutritional value and the amount. In adults, the type of different foods required is the same, but there is difference in the amount depending on the energy needs of individuals. All forms of pollution are blamed on to human activities, especially modern industrialization. Mark believes that if people want to keep healthy, then they must take care of the environment from pollution the same way they would defend their own bodies from any harm.

Modern civilization is the cause of pollution. Forests and rivers are slowly disappearing mainly as a result of increase in environmental temperature. The industrial revolution has increased production of greenhouse gases which are expelled into the atmosphere which eliminates the ozone layer that protects the sun from harmful rays of the sun. Mark gives a personal touch to the article by providing the audience with specific examples drawn from his life and that of his family. This provides the audience with a better understanding of the article and the author in general. Boyle does not mind bad-mouthing of some people and is not seeking to force his ideology on his audience. Towards the conclusion of the article, he states that he can only speak for himself and the people should take care of their own health as they see fit.

Furthermore, in campaigning for tolerance and sober debate from all sides, he recognizes the difficulty of having a calm and objective discussion on the subject.