Prof. Dr. Gobinda Chandra Das :
World Heart Day will be observed today (29 September) in Bangladesh like elsewhere in the world. The day is a chance for people across the globe to take part in the world’s biggest intervention against cardiovascular disease. The day focuses on creating healthy heart environments.
Devised by the World Heart Federation to help people realise that the majority of these deaths could be avoided, the day is part of an international campaign to spread awareness about heart disease and stroke prevention.
Anxiety or mental uneasiness, aggression of emotion, excessive workload and miscellaneous burden of life increase the risk of heart disease. In daily life, continuous increase of demand, rush in work and daily stress in modern life directly affects the cardiovascular system of human body. If the heart is compared with horse then the mind is its rider. So when mind increases the pace of run in life then naturally it increases pressure on mind and it create impact on heart. Today people are competing with the pace of time. Naturally it is taking its toll. As a result many are being affected by heart disease. And without any forecast, at anytime it can snatch away man’s life.
Men need food to live and when he suffers from any kind of diseases he needs proper treatment. As a treatment of heart disease two processes which are most mentionable are bypass and stenting. These are two kind of surgery. And these two kinds of treatment are very expensive and risky. Though patients become well but they have to live on medicine and with different physical inability. Even after all these he lives in the fear of becoming affected by the disease again. Heart disease has been identified as the number one killer disease of the world. Every year 17.3 million or quarter to two crore people die of this disease.
On the other hand about 38 lakh people die of malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Even though these diseases are presented as more severe disease than heart disease and the vast campaign about the alarming state of heart disease is absent.
From the website of World Heart Federation it is known that the theme of World Heart Day 2015 is creating heart healthy environment.
The risk of heart disease depends on one’s lifestyle.
By controlling body weight it is possible to reduce the risk of heart disease many times. We say that children are the future of the nation. It is undeniable that to keep this future active we have to keep an eye on their healthy heart. In the same way half of the population of our country is women. So to keep the women out of the movement and activity of careful protection of heart will be suicidal. To get rid of this silent killer we have to bring change in our entire lifestyle. It means that to gain a healthy heart we have to take some measures.
This year the main focus of World Heart Day is very much relevant for Bangladesh. In world health conference it has been said to take action plan by identifying heart disease as one of the most dreadful non-contagious diseases and settling an objective of lowering the death rate caused by these diseases in 194 countries.
Along with 194 countries of the World Heart Day will be observed in Bangladesh. We think that celebrating this day will become successful only when the less rich people of the country will be able to come under the prevention and cure of heart disease. For this reason for living healthy life, especially for the better health of heart recognizing yoga internationally as the alternative treatment of heart disease United Nations observe 21st June as World Yoga Day.
So we must remember the alternative treatment of yoga. This alternative treatment is called holistic treatment.
Holistic treatment is the tremendous combination of modern technology and ancient natural method. There are two main key factor of this treatment: Taking healthy diet and physical exercise. Daily food taking depends on patient’s age, state of disease and his present situation. And the matter about taking physical exercise is miscellaneous. Before all these, meditation in a proper method is needed to control mind. Mental stress is the main cause of illness and unhappiness. To lessen the mental pressure it is very much important. It has also been said to collect the ray or life power from the cosmic power. To gain all these is not an easy task at all.
For this, time is to be spent regularly and taking exercise regularly by obeying the rule properly is needed. Yoga, Pranayam, meditation and Neurobic Gym etc, for everything there is its own set of rule. In holistic treatment a program is given to follow observing soul, mind and body. In short it can be said that holistic treatment has gained people’s trust. It has played a vital role in curing thousands of patients of heart disease over the last 8 years. Now World Health Organization is giving emphasis on preventing and controlling heart disease.
In Bangladesh Holistic Health Care Centre is doing this job. In public sector this activities are being done in four steps.
1. At school level conducting activities or creating consciousness to prevent heart disease
2. To make conscious those people especially who are suffering from mental stress, high blood pressure or diabetes
3. To bring them under the light of holistic treatment who are already affected by heart disease
4. To apply the alternative treatment process for those who are in the risk of blockage even after angioplasty or bypass surgery.
Most people think that if once block begins to build in coronary artery it cannot be reversed. Its only treatment is angioplasty or bypass surgery. Millions of patients of our country who spent much money in bypass surgery for the treatment or many are going to abroad, again many are in the risk of being affected by heart diseases; by following the upper process they can get a disease free life.
It’s time to take some control in lifestyle and establish control on future. Establish control on lifestyle is difficult but if one can make control once then it will not be difficult for him later. As treatment for heart disease is very much expensive, so it is impossible for about 90% people of the country to treat the disease. Most of the people of our country live in villages. Communication system is not developed everywhere. As a result patients die before they are admitted to hospital. So before the heart attack happens, attack the heart attack. It means keep your heart healthy and strong. For this purpose Holistic Health Care Center is working.
On the World Heart Day, we must listen to our heart. We must look at our hearts well. To keep the heart disease free what is needed to be done we must try to do that. Besides the existing treatment process we have to create consciousness about alternative treatment. In this age of technology, we must ensure the availability of information for all. To get rid of cardiovascular disease we have to take treatment consciously. Now, we must ensure proper treatment for middle class, insolvent and poor patients of heart disease.
(The writer is Director, Holistic Healthcare Cenre, Panthapath, Dhaka. e-mail: [email protected])
World Heart Day will be observed today (29 September) in Bangladesh like elsewhere in the world. The day is a chance for people across the globe to take part in the world’s biggest intervention against cardiovascular disease. The day focuses on creating healthy heart environments.
Devised by the World Heart Federation to help people realise that the majority of these deaths could be avoided, the day is part of an international campaign to spread awareness about heart disease and stroke prevention.
Anxiety or mental uneasiness, aggression of emotion, excessive workload and miscellaneous burden of life increase the risk of heart disease. In daily life, continuous increase of demand, rush in work and daily stress in modern life directly affects the cardiovascular system of human body. If the heart is compared with horse then the mind is its rider. So when mind increases the pace of run in life then naturally it increases pressure on mind and it create impact on heart. Today people are competing with the pace of time. Naturally it is taking its toll. As a result many are being affected by heart disease. And without any forecast, at anytime it can snatch away man’s life.
Men need food to live and when he suffers from any kind of diseases he needs proper treatment. As a treatment of heart disease two processes which are most mentionable are bypass and stenting. These are two kind of surgery. And these two kinds of treatment are very expensive and risky. Though patients become well but they have to live on medicine and with different physical inability. Even after all these he lives in the fear of becoming affected by the disease again. Heart disease has been identified as the number one killer disease of the world. Every year 17.3 million or quarter to two crore people die of this disease.
On the other hand about 38 lakh people die of malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Even though these diseases are presented as more severe disease than heart disease and the vast campaign about the alarming state of heart disease is absent.
From the website of World Heart Federation it is known that the theme of World Heart Day 2015 is creating heart healthy environment.
The risk of heart disease depends on one’s lifestyle.
By controlling body weight it is possible to reduce the risk of heart disease many times. We say that children are the future of the nation. It is undeniable that to keep this future active we have to keep an eye on their healthy heart. In the same way half of the population of our country is women. So to keep the women out of the movement and activity of careful protection of heart will be suicidal. To get rid of this silent killer we have to bring change in our entire lifestyle. It means that to gain a healthy heart we have to take some measures.
This year the main focus of World Heart Day is very much relevant for Bangladesh. In world health conference it has been said to take action plan by identifying heart disease as one of the most dreadful non-contagious diseases and settling an objective of lowering the death rate caused by these diseases in 194 countries.
Along with 194 countries of the World Heart Day will be observed in Bangladesh. We think that celebrating this day will become successful only when the less rich people of the country will be able to come under the prevention and cure of heart disease. For this reason for living healthy life, especially for the better health of heart recognizing yoga internationally as the alternative treatment of heart disease United Nations observe 21st June as World Yoga Day.
So we must remember the alternative treatment of yoga. This alternative treatment is called holistic treatment.
Holistic treatment is the tremendous combination of modern technology and ancient natural method. There are two main key factor of this treatment: Taking healthy diet and physical exercise. Daily food taking depends on patient’s age, state of disease and his present situation. And the matter about taking physical exercise is miscellaneous. Before all these, meditation in a proper method is needed to control mind. Mental stress is the main cause of illness and unhappiness. To lessen the mental pressure it is very much important. It has also been said to collect the ray or life power from the cosmic power. To gain all these is not an easy task at all.
For this, time is to be spent regularly and taking exercise regularly by obeying the rule properly is needed. Yoga, Pranayam, meditation and Neurobic Gym etc, for everything there is its own set of rule. In holistic treatment a program is given to follow observing soul, mind and body. In short it can be said that holistic treatment has gained people’s trust. It has played a vital role in curing thousands of patients of heart disease over the last 8 years. Now World Health Organization is giving emphasis on preventing and controlling heart disease.
In Bangladesh Holistic Health Care Centre is doing this job. In public sector this activities are being done in four steps.
1. At school level conducting activities or creating consciousness to prevent heart disease
2. To make conscious those people especially who are suffering from mental stress, high blood pressure or diabetes
3. To bring them under the light of holistic treatment who are already affected by heart disease
4. To apply the alternative treatment process for those who are in the risk of blockage even after angioplasty or bypass surgery.
Most people think that if once block begins to build in coronary artery it cannot be reversed. Its only treatment is angioplasty or bypass surgery. Millions of patients of our country who spent much money in bypass surgery for the treatment or many are going to abroad, again many are in the risk of being affected by heart diseases; by following the upper process they can get a disease free life.
It’s time to take some control in lifestyle and establish control on future. Establish control on lifestyle is difficult but if one can make control once then it will not be difficult for him later. As treatment for heart disease is very much expensive, so it is impossible for about 90% people of the country to treat the disease. Most of the people of our country live in villages. Communication system is not developed everywhere. As a result patients die before they are admitted to hospital. So before the heart attack happens, attack the heart attack. It means keep your heart healthy and strong. For this purpose Holistic Health Care Center is working.
On the World Heart Day, we must listen to our heart. We must look at our hearts well. To keep the heart disease free what is needed to be done we must try to do that. Besides the existing treatment process we have to create consciousness about alternative treatment. In this age of technology, we must ensure the availability of information for all. To get rid of cardiovascular disease we have to take treatment consciously. Now, we must ensure proper treatment for middle class, insolvent and poor patients of heart disease.
(The writer is Director, Holistic Healthcare Cenre, Panthapath, Dhaka. e-mail: [email protected])
