People Must Bring Changes In Their Lifestyle To Avoid Heart

Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published March 22, 2017 | 09:55 AM

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Mar, 2017 ) : Renowned Heart Specialist Dr. Syed Shuja Uuddin on Wednesday have advised People must bring changes in their lifestyles by adopting regular exercise, inclusion of fresh fruits, juices and vegetables in diet plan to avoid heart related diseases.

Talking to private channel news he further said, unhealthy food, lack of physical activity, environment change and other environmental hazards major causes of heart diseases among citizens. Dr.

Syed Shuja said that sudden death due to cardiac arrest was the most dangerous among all the heart-related diseases. He mentioned our environment was also a major cause of such disease as it is gradually becoming the number one killer disease, adding around 80 per cent of total deaths occurred due to this disease worldwide.

"Waist over 36 inches in men and 30 inches in women is dangerous," he explained. Dr said the use of vegetables and minimum use of meat could help in controlling blood pressure and diabetes, which were essential to avoid heart disease.

He said rapid urbanization, poverty and lack of awareness were causing increase in heart diseases in Asia in comparison to other continents. "The ratio of heart diseases in developing countries, including Pakistan, is the highest in the world," he said.

"Early diagnosis helps in better treatment of heart diseases," he said, adding symptoms of heart diseases included interruption in breathing, pain in lower jaw, stomach and chest, heavy sweat, pale complexion, etc.

He called for launching an aggressive awareness campaign against heart diseases. Dr stressed the need to save the younger generation from fast food and bring them back to homemade food to avoid heart and other diseases, adding that brown sugar, canola oil, olive oil, etc., should be used.

People should have a forty-minute exercise daily to avoid heart diseases as majority of people are suffering from this disease only because of not having enough physical activity, he highlighted. APP/mon/mtd/bmq