Concern over increasing number of heart diseases

Speakers at a seminar yesterday expressed concern at the increasing number of people who are suffering from heart diseases, saying that it was mainly due to faulty lifestyle, intake of non-nutritional foods and lack of physical work.
Change of lifestyle, intake of nutritional foods and regular exercise can make people free from heart diseases, which claimed many lives in the country, said the experts at a seminar.
Two-day first national seminar on reversal programme aimed at prevention of heart diseases concluded at LGED auditorium at Agargaon yesterday.
Bangladesh Cardiac Society Chairman Prof Dr Amanullah MP, Bangladesh Science and Industrial Research Council Chairman Prof Dr SM Imamul Haq, Dr Anwar Hossain, Prof Dr M Kasimuddin, Dr SM Shahidul Haque, Dr Shakhawat Hossain Bhuiyan and Prof Dr M Shamsher Ali spoke at the seminar.
Dr Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee, reversal programme specialist and vice chairman of Indian Cardio-logical Society, presented the keynote paper at the seminar.
Dr Nirmal said anyone leads a healthy life being free from heart diseases as per reversal programme invented by eminent US scientist and cardiologist Prof Dr Dean Ornish.
About 900 people, including physicians, attended the two-day seminar organised by the Science And Art of Living (SAAOL) Health and Research Foundation to raise awareness about the outbreak of heart diseases and its prevention.