Things we must remember this World Heart Day
Saturday - September 29, 2018 10:52 am ,
Category : WTN SPECIAL
WTN- Like every year, this year too Word Heart Day was celebrated on September 29 across the globe through various seminars, debates and cultural programmes to raise awareness and keep the discourse on heart health alive. However, despite growing awareness on how to keep the heart healthy, the number of heart patients and deaths due to failure of the heart are ever increasing.
People are today much more concerned than their ancestors about the oil they use and the food they eat and get their cholesterol checked regularly to avoid chances of a heart ailment. But their alacrity in this is offset by other debilitating factors like pollution and a sedentary lifestyle that have come up as major modern day banes.
Pollution levels in the air around us have spiked to an unprecedented level, which directly or indirectly affects heart health. We sit in our offices for 10-12 hours a day, which is damaging for the heart. Public spaces like parks and grounds for exercise have reduced, which have forced most people indoors.
Stress burden has increased due to stressful coordinates in life like traffic jams, noise pollution, technical skill upgrading, professional engagements, long and frequent travel and lesser time for family and little space for recreation. This also leads to an undisciplined life, irregular timings for food and binge eating.
All these contribute together in gradually diminishing the heart life and leaving it vulnerable. Today even youngsters are falling prey to heart attacks due to some of these aforesaid factors being at play. Our society is such that unless we ourselves effort and find ways to make our lives holistic and disciplined, we are not going to get any help from our outside circumstances.
Rather our extraneous situation is antithetical and inconducive to heart health and it needs caution, discipline, awareness, positivity and innovative ways to develop a way of life that promotes good health. ICMR data from 1995-2000 shows that in Madhya Pradesh 34 per cent men have no regular exercise, while close to 22 per cent suffer from high BP. On an average 45 per cent men are victims of smoking or tobacco addiction. In tobacco, MP leads among states, with close to 53 per cent men addicted to it. This naturally leads to poor heart health.
People need to shun such unhealthy practices to lead a healthy and long life. By adopting the right measures, they can not only set examples for their children but also spread a good message and initiate a better trend in society. Unless people take steps wisely and collectively pledge to make society better, no amount of force from doctors and no amount of discussions in seminars and conventions can set things right.
The cost of health burden on our country’s exchequer is huge and a large reason for this is the substantial number of heart patients, despite the fact that most of the heart ailments are preventable if we live life the right way.
-Window To News
People are today much more concerned than their ancestors about the oil they use and the food they eat and get their cholesterol checked regularly to avoid chances of a heart ailment. But their alacrity in this is offset by other debilitating factors like pollution and a sedentary lifestyle that have come up as major modern day banes.
Pollution levels in the air around us have spiked to an unprecedented level, which directly or indirectly affects heart health. We sit in our offices for 10-12 hours a day, which is damaging for the heart. Public spaces like parks and grounds for exercise have reduced, which have forced most people indoors.
Stress burden has increased due to stressful coordinates in life like traffic jams, noise pollution, technical skill upgrading, professional engagements, long and frequent travel and lesser time for family and little space for recreation. This also leads to an undisciplined life, irregular timings for food and binge eating.
All these contribute together in gradually diminishing the heart life and leaving it vulnerable. Today even youngsters are falling prey to heart attacks due to some of these aforesaid factors being at play. Our society is such that unless we ourselves effort and find ways to make our lives holistic and disciplined, we are not going to get any help from our outside circumstances.
Rather our extraneous situation is antithetical and inconducive to heart health and it needs caution, discipline, awareness, positivity and innovative ways to develop a way of life that promotes good health. ICMR data from 1995-2000 shows that in Madhya Pradesh 34 per cent men have no regular exercise, while close to 22 per cent suffer from high BP. On an average 45 per cent men are victims of smoking or tobacco addiction. In tobacco, MP leads among states, with close to 53 per cent men addicted to it. This naturally leads to poor heart health.
People need to shun such unhealthy practices to lead a healthy and long life. By adopting the right measures, they can not only set examples for their children but also spread a good message and initiate a better trend in society. Unless people take steps wisely and collectively pledge to make society better, no amount of force from doctors and no amount of discussions in seminars and conventions can set things right.
The cost of health burden on our country’s exchequer is huge and a large reason for this is the substantial number of heart patients, despite the fact that most of the heart ailments are preventable if we live life the right way.
-Window To News
