Healthy Diet To Ensure Healthy Population:experts

FAISALABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th Mar, 2017 ) : Healthy diet, potable water and steps to combat environment hazards will ensure healthy population, reduction in diseases and health budget.

These views were expressed by experts at a seminar on 'One Health' organised by Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) in collaboration with US Center for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security, UAF.

Speaking on the occasion, UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan said 'One Health' was an approach to ensure well being of people, animals and environment through collaborative steps for resolving problems at local, national and global level.

He added it was a matter of food habit as the people did not know about nutritional values of intake. Principal Punjab Medical College Dr Alfareed Zafar said the country was facing two major issues, including population growth and education.

He stressed upon the need to collaborative efforts to reduce diseases. Vice Chancellor University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Dr Talat Nazeer Pasha said in the UVAS, they were working on 'One Health' to fight challenges of human and animals diseases.

Secretary General Pakistan academy of Sciences Zabta Khan Shinwari said tangible researchers on diseases were essential and experts should give a road map to fight climate changes. Dean Veterinary Sciences Dr Ahrar Khan said natural health was the best maintained by life-style change, including physical exercise and nutritional measures/dietary habits.

National academies of Sciences Washington DC Programme Officer Audtry D Thevenon, National Academies of Sciences Washington DC Senior Program Officer Lida Anestidou, Davis Hayman from Massey University and others also attended the meeting.