Diabetes, heart disease on rise due to faulty lifestyle

Physicians at a seminar said that diabetes and heart disease are increasing alarmingly in the country mainly due to faulty lifestyle and intake of artificial and junk foods, reports UNB. Intake of natural foods, stress-free life, change of lifestyle and regular exercise can prevent the diseases, they said, warning that the diseases will take an epidemic form if those steps are not followed. They made the remark while addressing the two-day third national seminar on "Reversal Programme-2011" jointly organised by the Science and Art of Living Health and Research Foundation and Hope Heart Care Foundation, India at Institute of Public Health at Mohakhali in the city Saturday. Prof Dr Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharya, heart disease and reversal programme specialist and vice chairman of Indian Cardiological Society, Dr Touhid Hossain, associate professor of National Kidney Disease and Urology Hospital, and Dr Anwar Hossain of SAAOL health programme addressed the seminar. The physicians called for taking vegetables, soy protein rich and nutritious foods and changing lifestyle for building a diabetes and heart disease-free Bangladesh.