Nowadays it is easier for people to maintain good health than it was in the past

Nowadays it is easier for people to maintain good health than it was in the past.

Recently, there is always a controversial issue that compared with past, nowadays people can retain health easier. From my perspective, I disagree with the following statements.

To begin with, nowadays people are facing more severe environmental problems which result in some incurable diseases like lung cancer than these in the past. As it known to us all, the rapid development of industrialization has triggered the emergence of significant amounts of pollutants around city centers. The toxic gases like sulfur dioxide released from factories are the chief culprit of the air pollution. It is not hard to imagine that the more pollutants like PM2.5 rotating in the air, the more risks of suffering disease for people. A recent survey conducted by a prestigious university shows that the amount of people who have lung cancer has increased abruptly and This type of cancer alone kills more people each year than any other illness. However, there are no any effective medications or vaccines to address the illness. Obviously, once people fall into this disease, they may be bothered by it until they die. Therefore, nowadays such incurable diseases indeed severely threat people’s health.

More importantly, in the few years, due to the fast pace of modern life in metropolis, it is harder for people to keep healthy. In the contemporary world , intensive competitions and overwhelming workload cause harms to people from all ages. For example, some white-collar during their office hours have to eat fast food like hamburgers with high calories and low nutrition in order to buy time. Besides, a report shows that people who did not achieve adequate success or even suffered failures after enduring long-time high pressure from their study or work, ultimately may not face criticisms and thus will die by suicide. The reason underlying the above health problem is nothing but suffering high pressure of life . Undoubtedly, nowadays,   people have to deal with many challenges especially maintaining health in the tough life.

All in all, as the reasons mentioned above, I firmly believe that in the contemporary world, it is harder for people to keep healthy.