The modern lifestyle, technology and the computer age, for all their many advantages, have over the years also included some major disadvantages and have had a detrimental effect on the health of the wider population. thus, for example, people of various ages tend to spend many hours seated in chairs: Youths in classrooms, adults at their office workplaces and also in their free time, at home watching television, seated with their computers, talking on mobile phones and so on. On top of this, an unbalanced diet, mental stress resulting from a variety of pressures, lack of exercise, etc., cause people’s health to deteriorate and bring about various chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, various kinds of cancer and more.
The Ministry of Health is actively engaged in health promotion, in an effort to enable the population to maintain and improve their health, thereby creating the conditions whereby the healthy choice will also be the easy choice for the majority of the population.
