“Western diets cause a third of heart attack deaths worldwide,” the Daily Mail reports. Western-style diets high in meat, fat, dairy and salt put people at higher risk of heart attack. According to the newspaper, a study has found that poor diet is responsible for 30% of the risk of heart disease.
This story is based on a large study in 52 countries, which looked at the diets of people who had a heart attack, and then worked out the association of diet with heart attack risk. There was a reduction in risk of heart attack with higher fruit and vegetable intake, and an increased risk with diets higher in meat, dairy and salt. The design of the study means that it cannot prove that diet causes heart attack. However, the fact that a diet rich in saturated fat and salt can lead to coronary artery disease comes as no surprise. This type of diet has been previously linked to raised cholesterol, fatty build-up in the arteries and high blood pressure. Eating a balanced healthy diet, being active and avoiding smoking are the best ways to avoid heart disease.
Where did the story come from?
This research was carried out by Dr Romaina Iqbal and colleagues of the INTERHEART study from the Population Health Research Institute McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Ontario, Canada; The Aga Khan University, Pakistan;
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The various players in this research effort hail from all four corners of the world: a truly international effort discovering and sharing knowledge for the benefit of all humanity:
“An institution dedicated to proceeding beyond known limits must be committed to independent thinking. In a university scholars engage both orthodox and unorthodox ideas, seeking truth and understanding wherever they may be found. That process is often facilitated by an independent governance structure, which serves to ensure that the university adheres to its fundamental mission and is not pressured to compromise its work for short-term advantage. For a Muslim university it is appropriate to see learning and knowledge as a continuing acknowledgement of Allah’s magnificence”(Aga Khan IV, Speech, 1993, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan)
“A thousand years ago, my forefathers, the Fatimid imam-caliphs of Egypt, founded al-Azhar University and the Academy of Knowledge in Cairo. In the Islamic tradition, they viewed the discovery of knowledge as a way to understand, so as to serve better God’s creation, to apply knowledge and reason to build society and shape human aspirations”(Aga Khan IV, Speech, 25th June 2004, Matola, Mozambique.)
“The Muslim world, once a remarkable bastion of scientific and humanist knowledge, a rich and self-confident cradle of culture and art, has never forgotten its past.The great Muslim philosopher al-Kindi wrote eleven hundred years ago, “No one is diminished by the truth, rather does the truth ennobles all”. That is no less true today”(Aga Khan IV, Speech,1996, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.)
“The truth, as the famous Islamic scholars repeatedly told their students, is that the spirit of disciplined, objective enquiry is the property of no single culture, but of all humanity. To quote the great physician and philosopher, Ibn Sina: “My profession is to be forever journeying, to travel about the universe so that I may know all its conditions.” “(Aga Khan IV, Aga Khan University, 16 March 1983, Karachi, Pakistan)
“It (Surah of Light from the Quran) tells us that the oil of the blessed olive tree lights the lamp of understanding, a light that belongs neither to the East nor West. We are to give this light to all. In that spirit, all that we learn will belong to the world and that too is part of the vision I share with you”(Aga Khan IV, Speech, 25 Sept. 1979)
The above are 5 quotes and excerpts from Blogpost Four Hundred:
http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/400blogpost-four-hundred-knowledge.html
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