Healthy food, lifestyle can prevent heart disease: Dr Yadvinder
STATE TIMES NEWS
AMRITSAR: Amandeep Medicity organised an awareness programme on the occasion of World Heart Day here.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Yadvinder Singh, Director and Head, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Amandeep Medicity, said “Due to our wrong habits, we have filled so much stress in our life that diseases have surrounded us all around.”
While enumerating the reasons for growth of heart diseases among people, he said that people have reduced physical work, do not exercise, eating outside junk food, fried and oily food, smoking, sedentary lifestyle etc. Due to this, heart disease is increasing among young generation also.
To avoid heart diseases, Dr Singh told that definitely we need to change our lifestyle immediately. “For this stress relieving exercises should be done regularly, do physical work, must take a morning walk, exercise and most importantly – those who smoke, immediately abandon it. Apart from this, if you want to stay healthy, then junk food, over-fried foods should always be called bye-bye,” he said. Dr Yadvinder Singh said that everyone should take a minimum of 45-minute walk everyday along with exercise and yoga. “We can avoid heart disease to a great extent by keeping BP under control, avoiding unnecessary tensions, consuming nutritious food and bidding good bye to tobacco,” he said.
Jatinder Brar, Founder, Punjab Natshala, who attended the function as Guest of Honor, said that God has gifted us with a machine, called human body, which continuously works 24 hours a day without any stoppage. So it’s our moral duty to safeguard this machine.
Chief Guest of the programme, Komal Mittal, Commissioner Municipal Corporation, Amritsar, while describing Dr Yadwinder Singh as a real life hero, congratulated the entire team of Amandeep Group of Hospitals and especially the Cardiac Department and said that saving one’s life is the greatest virtue and Dr Yadavinder Singh and his expert team are performing this task very well.
She appreciated the awareness programmes being conducted by Amandeep Group for the betterment of the citizens of the area & especially Amritsar & termed it as an amazing work.
She also appreciated the tag line of Amandeep Medicity Cardiac Department: Your heart is in safe hands.
On this occasion, patients who had been cured by Dr Yadvinder Singh were also present.
Dr Amandeep Kaur, CEO, Amandeep Group, Dr Shahbaz Singh, Dr Anupreet Kaur, Dr K.K Singh Dr A.A Mehra, Dr Manmeet Singh, Dr Puneet Arora and Dr Naaz Arora apart from prominent social service organizations of the region and others were also present at the event.
At the end of the programme, Chief Guest Komal Mittal and Guest of Honor Jatinder Brar were honored with mementos.
