Abstract

Advancement of human researches and public health activities resulted in infectious diseases control and relative increase in human lifespan. Moreover, human industrialized life and life style changes have resulted in new challenges for human health specially in the field of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) especially in adolescence and old age. With the relative increase in life expectancy, one of the main concerns is healthy aging. Many factors influence healthy aging, some of these, such as healthy diet, physical activities and taking care of mental are related to lifestyle. In this article, lifestyle effects on healthy aging with focus on Islamic lifestyle would be presented under the following headings:
A. Diet and Nutrition Style: Food poverty, overeating and obesity, specific nutritional needs and eating habits, traditional foods and cultural and religious rules for nutrition including eating” Halal” or permissible foods such as vegetables, fruits, meat of lamb, goat, beef, chicken and fish and also, not using” Haram” or forbidden foods such as alcoholic drinks, pork, carcasses meat, blood and filthy materials
B. The religious beliefs and practices such as: praying, Salat, voluntariness to help others, experiencing compassion and empathy for others
C. Islamic sexual lifestyle with safe and lovely marital status and proper family development
D. Sleep and awakening pattern
E. Social lifestyle, physical activities and recreation activities including: the type of leisure spending and high-risk behaviors: alcohol consumption, smoking, drug abuse & addiction etc.

Pay attention to essential role of lifestyle on development of healthy or non-healthy aging would be helpful to take proper decisions for effective modifications in lifestyle, in the process of acquiring healthy aging.

Keywords:Lifestyle; Health; Aging; Islam