ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT/APP): 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.