Some people think living in big cities is bad for peoples’ health. To what extent do you agree or disagree.
Nowadays people are more aware about themselves and their surroundings, questions like how a lifestyle affects the quality of living are being raised. There is a growing number of people realize that life style in big cities tends to have negative effect on one’s health. I tend to agree with the above point for two obvious changes the big cities have brought to us.
First we notice that living in big cities tends to have a fast paced life style compare to country side living. Most peoples’ megacity life incorporates a round o’clock working life style, often we see working professional line up in front of a convenience store, gouging their lunch while talking to clients on the phone. The fast paced work life seems an inevitable outcome as we choose to work for corporations in big cities. However aside from the busy working lifestyle it entails, big cities also influence us in the way we choose to spend our leisure time as well. Eating fast food with repetitive work load is an undeniably anti-health working professional life style in big cities. By dwelling in this competitive environment, people are easily influenced by its past paced culture, gradually we weigh convenience as our top priorities. Thus this fast paced culture is instilled into every aspects of our life, we are gradually forming an eating habit in fast food, inadvertence to deep communications, lack of time in forming real intimacy relationships. As a consequence, by putting things out in convenience the fast way of modern city living engaged us in a stressful unhealthy life.
Another unhealthy aspect in modern megacity living has to do with pollution. People contend that pollution is also an evitable by product in industrial phase. It comes in various ways in our modern city living, from sky high psi air readings that broadcast every day to noxious food additives place on our tables. Some of the additives in our processed food are detrimental to our health in every way. The accumulated toxin in our body not only destroys our generations’ health but also do harm to our offspring’s.
In short, the life style which the big city promotes is an unhealthy one. We should aware the effects that faced paced city life has brought to us, to avoid the unhealthy side effects the city incorporate, we need to take a step back be more reflective on the living style we incorporate into our lives.