Kalam asks doctors to promote 3-dimensional approach to heartcare

New Delhi, Oct 3 (UNI) With India projected to have 60 per cent of the world heart patients by 2010, President A P J Abdul Kalam today asked cardiologists to promote a three-dimensional approach to heart care by regular exercise, meditation and vegetarian diet.

''Health has to be treated not as the absence of disease but the feeling of complete physical, mental and social well-being.

.... the cause of pain and the disease arises out of lack of an integrating mechanism in the mind and the body,'' Dr Kalam said during his inaugural address at the Second Asian Interventional Cardiovascular Therapeutics (AICT) conferenve.

The President called upon the experts to promote the lifestyle intervention results followed by DRDO Global Hospital experiments on the 3-dimensional approach to heart care.

''The conference may discuss whether the three-dimensional approaches to heart care can become a part of the treatment schedule on interventional heart care cases,'' he added.

''By creating an environment of positive thoughts, peace and happiness can minimize the load on the heart, which should lead to reversal of the disease. The main hypothesis was by adapting a healthy lifestyle of low fat high fibre vegetarian diet, moderate exercise and stress management through meditation, we can decrease load on the heart which in turn should reverse or halt the disease process,'' Dr Kalam, who commissioned the DRDO study, said.

Dr Kalam, who made the first stent in India, advocated carrying out research which will enable provision of totally non-invasive treatment to cardiac patients based on convergence of nano-bio and info technologies.

''The amount of resources allocated to research for curative medicine and launching of preventive programs at the community level are very much limited... Infusion of right kind of money and altruistic professionals can only bring the normal health to people,'' he added.

''I would suggest the participants of this Conference to discuss the suggestions and provide recommendations for taking up preventive programs at the community level and promoting research to find curative solutions,'' he observed.

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