Islamabad:
Health experts have advised citizens to use proper meat preservation methods, have know-how to consume fresh meat to keep their health intact and avoid risks by saving it from heat and load.
The ritual of Sunnah Ibrahimi (RA) is performed on Eidul Azha by Muslims as a prerequisite for Hajj every year, considered the greatest victim in Islam.
When we talk to a private news channel, lecturer and gastroenterologist dr. Abdullah bin Khalid of Aga Khan University Hospital recommended that citizens consume sacrificial flesh in the form of steaming or boiling, not in processed form.
He said that the use of red meat in processed form is not good for people who add that the World Health Organization (WHO) had already declared the consumption of red meat can cause many harmful effects on human health and quoted US heart disease department that it estimates that only 350 grams of meat a week can be consumed.
Dr. Abdullah recommended various precautions, ie. From cutting qurbani meat to the process of its cooking, such as, 1) The meat should be cleared for all fat, 2) Cook the meat in healthy oils, ie. olive oil, there is extra virgin oil, rapeseed oil or sunflower oil, etc., 3) Red meat should not be cooked on high flame, or till -time when it will reject its proximity oil, etc. The mentioned cooking of the meat on high flame can be tasty, but would be low in nutritional, 4) boiling meat on low flame chutnies.
In response to a question, he said that patients with heart problems, angina and high cholesterol should use red meat in moderate quantity and added that we do not advise them not to eat meat anyway.
