How The Western Lifestyle Causes Hemorrhoids

Hemorrhoids are now, unfortunately, a common problem in Western countries. Many people in these countries suffer from hemorrhoids while their counterparts in other countries of the world do not. So, why the difference?

Well, the reason is that most westerners have a more modern lifestyle. Here, modern is not a good thing. And, this lifestyle is more conducive to causing hemorrhoids.

Most westerners follow a lifestyle that is not good for the human body. The first of the conditions of this lifestyle is stress.

Stress has been proved to cause a myriad of problems for the human body. Westerner people suffer from stress much more than others in the world because their lifestyle demands much more of them much quickly. The following is a typical example of the demands placed on a Western woman.

Let us look at the typical day of a Western mother. She gets ready for work, she gets the children ready for school, she feeds her children, brings them to school, goes to work, returns home, picks the children up from school, feeds the children, goes over their homework with them, cleans up dinner and then prepares for the next day. However, her day may not stop there.

Next comes cooking dinner, washing clothes, cleaning up, doing the dishes and preparing for the next day. And let's not forget about grocery shopping, paying bills and doing homework. Boy, I am tired just reading this.

This great amount of demands placed upon a person, causes extreme stress. this stress can injure the body. Excess stress can create all kinds of poor health conditions including high blood pressure, nervousness, heart disease, headaches and yes, even hemorrhoids. With this constant stress and without the time to relax, the body does not have a chance to heal itself.

Also, the western diet causes Westerners to not eat the proper foods. Proper nutrition is very important to increase wellness and to decrease the incidences of hemorrhoids. Their lack of time and prevalence of eating fast food is the problem for them.

It is much simpler and quicker for westerners to buy a quick hamburger and fries than to cook any meal that would be much healthier for them. All the westerners want to do is kill the 'hungries' and get on with their lives.

Westerners find it much simpler and quicker to buy a quick hamburger and fried onion rings than to make any meal that would be healthier for them. It simply takes time and effort--something that they may not have. All the Westerners want to do is stop being hungry and to accomplish more of what they need to do for the day.

Moreover, Westerns have more hemorrhoids than their counterparts because they do not exercise enough or exercise incorrectly with harsh workouts. It is fact that exercise helps to heal the body. Without it, you body does not fair well.

Good cardiovascular exercise re-invigorates all parts of the body. It helps increase circulation to better feed cells and to remove cell pollutants. This is also true with the colon. Without such invigoration, the colon wall is more subject to causing hemorrhoids. However, westerners simply do not find the time to exercise.

Improper exercise can also cause hemorrhoids. Westerners may simply try to over-exercise with a mega-workout. They try to fit the same workout in a smaller space of time. However, such mega-works like heavy weightlifting and harsh cardio-vascular exercise is not good for the body.

Heavy weightlifting may cause hemorrhoids when body muscles compress extremely, they push upon the colon. If too much stress is placed on the colon, then it protrudes out of the body causing an external hemorrhoid.

Extreme cardio-vascular training can lead to dehydrating the body. Dehydration can cause hemorrhoids. Much like oil in an engine, your body requires water to lubricate it. This is also true when your body expels waste.Without enough water water, waste drags upon, irritates and pulls down the colon and thus, cause hemorrhoids.

One final element of the western lifestyle that causes hemorrhoids is excess alcohol. Like extreme dehydrating exercise, alcohol also dehydrates the body when the body metabolizes it. And for the reasons listed above, excess alcohol causes hemorrhoids.