{"id":193,"date":"2017-12-26T04:59:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T04:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.themegrill.com\/colormag-dark\/?p=193"},"modified":"2024-04-06T17:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:19:25","slug":"getting-enough-protien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Cardiologist warns against poor lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A health expert urged the public to adopt a healthy lifestyle which includes daily exercise, regular heart checkups and maintaining their weight in order to avoid heart-related deaths as the incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD) is alarmingly on the rise globally, and in Pakistan as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior cardiologist, Major General (R) Azhar Mehmood Kayani advised the public that the risk of heart-related deaths can be reduced by adopting a healthy lifestyle and urged them to regularly get their complete heart check-up to avoid possible heart attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasised the importance of raising awareness among the masses regarding cardiovascular disease and its prevention, adding that laziness and lack of outdoor activities are the root causes of heart disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said people should adopt a healthy lifestyle as well as do exercise to protect themselves from cardiac diseases. Dr Kiyani said there is a dire need to take cardiac diseases seriously and work on their prevention, adding that diabetes, hypertension, smoking, and inactive lifestyle were major reasons for heart attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to genetic factors, smoking, obesity, physical inactivity and poor diet, including consumption of fast food and oily foods were major risk factors for heart attacks, he said. &#8220;Obesity is the mother of most diseases, giving rise to hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases,&#8221; he highlighted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have been recorded in high, middle, and low-income countries, he said, adding, that low and middle-income countries lack proper healthcare resources to combat the disease\u2019s burden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published in The Express Tribune, March 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A health expert urged the public to adopt a healthy lifestyle which includes daily exercise, regular heart checkups and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-health"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600-300x180.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600-768x461.jpg","large":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600-392x272.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600-390x205.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600-130x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600-800x445.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600-150x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600-1000x480.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600-600x417.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600-285x450.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/intellectualtimes.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Heart-Xray-Chest_1000x600-575x198.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"intellectualtimes.pk","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43a0f5b832adba83b6cef2045ce448bca3e9ef58b94b5a2d73492ef387beffce?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":false,"magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"ISLAMABAD: A health expert urged the public to adopt a healthy lifestyle which includes daily exercise, regular heart checkups and","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Food &amp; 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