FAISALABAD, Aug 6: Canadian Board of Homeopathic Examiners President Dr Harbakhash Singh Sandhar has said that using refrigerators to preserve food massively invites allergy on different counts and consumers have to suffer various diseases by employing this preservation method.

Addressing the inaugural session of an international seminar on Integrated Medicine organised by the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) in collaboration with the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine (CCHM) here on Wednesday, he said the people using hybrid food varieties with extra-protein components were found much infected by allergy.

He said providing high protein feed to chickens for poultry consumption was also a major source of allergy threat to human health. We could expand the life expectancy up to 100 years by practicing natural means in human foods, he added.

Earlier, UAF vice-chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmad termed the alternative medicines as social medication and said the institution had produced over 250,000 trained workers through various short courses. He said the administration intended to make the clinical biochemistry course more modernised.

He said after completing clinical biochemistry course, the participants would be able to deal with various kinds of diseases in their localities efficiently.

Referring to the national tuberculosis control programme report, he said that Pakistan was ranked at top 7th among 22 high disease burden countries of the world, so the participants of the course should be taught various ways and means to effectively deal with diseases.

Dr Ziaur Rehman said that Pakistan was lagging behind the other countries of the region with respect to life expectancy to 63 years, which was very low as compared to other countries.

He said that clinical biochemistry was not just a short course but also a capacity-building programme of alternative medicine practitioners as 60-70 per cent population of Indo-Pak subcontinent visit alternative practitioners for treatment.