Excessive exercise: Youth dies from cardiac arrest

KAMOKE:

A 20-year-old college student died on Friday from excessive weight lifting, doctors said.

Parents of the deceased Tanveer Ahmed, a resident of Ghuma village, said that he had been living with his uncle Muhammad Khalid in Kamoke where he was studying.

They said Ahmed was fond of weight lifting and had recently joined a gym, where he exercised daily.

On Friday, they said, Ahmed fainted at the gym while he was exercising with weights. His uncle, a homeopathic doctor, was informed and Ahmed was taken to the tehsil headquarters hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

He had turned blue and they suspected that he had had a cardiac arrest due to weight lifting. The uncle, Khalid, said that Ahmed had recently started taking some locally manufactured food supplements for body building.

Later, some resident of the deceased’s native village staged a protest to demand that the Health Department and drug inspectors take notice of sub-standard food supplements on the market. They also demanded action against unregistered gyms.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 13^th, 2013.