My newest article for the #Canadian#Healthcare Network/ the #Medical Post. Why too much #salt in your diet is really bad.
Sorry the site is password protected, but free for doctors and pharmacists.
Here are the first few paragraphs:
JUNE 2024 --Too much of anything that’s good for you can be bad.
And if anything, Canadians consume far more sodium than is good for them. Indeed, in some cases, it’s killing them—which is why Health Canada announced that starting in early 2026, Canadians will see sodium warning labels on the front of packaged food.
The move is meant to help relieve the burden that excess sodium has on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality rates. About a third of hypertension cases are caused by excess dietary sodium, translating to about 2.5 million people in Canada.
Samples of what the warning labels will look like are on the Health Canada website.
Front-of-package nutrition labeling is widely recognized as an effective tool to help counteract rising rates of diet-related chronic disease, a Health Canada spokesperson told the Medical Post in an email. However, eating out can still consist of salt-filled meals.
“In general, most foods sold in restaurants and food service establishments, as well as foods ordered for take-out and delivery, are not considered to be prepackaged and are thus exempt from offering nutrition labels,” the email said. Some establishments provide nutrition information voluntarily.
The Global Burden of Disease study states that high blood pressure is the leading risk for death in the world, killing over 10 million people per year, according to Dr. Norman Campbell, professor emeritus of medicine, physiology and pharmacology at the University of Calgary. He has conducted multiple studies on sodium and health.
“Even if you throw COVID in there and all other infectious disease, high blood pressure kills more people and disables more than all the infectious diseases . . .. But if you look down the list, after high blood pressure, dietary risks are right there; and sodium is the top dietary risk,” he said.
An extreme example of too much salt was reported after a woman died after drinking a 1,000ml bottle of soy sauce—an intake of about 160 g of salt.
In 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) produced a report showing that issues from consuming too much sodium is a global health problem. The agency also produced a sodium reduction score card ranking countries in terms of their efforts to reduce excessive sodium intake. Canada has a mix of voluntary reduction efforts with mandatory measures in the works, but could do better. There are also score cards for sugar and trans-fatty acids.
“The background of all this is reducing sodium in the diet is one of the most cost-effective things a government can do to improve the health of the population . . .. We saw the effects of COVID—how much it costs society to prevent COVID. The estimates are that reducing sodium in the diet saves the government $13 to $18 for every dollar it invests,” said Dr. Campbell.
Why is sodium so bad?
High sodium intake increases blood pressure, but over time it can damage blood vessels and lead to atherosclerosis, heart disease, strokes and kidney failure. Evidence also suggests excess sodium acts as an inflammatory agent and contributes to the severity of various inflammatory disorders, Dr. Campbell told the Medical Post in an interview....
“…when he gets to be president, not only is he gonna secure the #border, he’s going to #deport hundreds of thousands of people here illegally. And if you wanna shut down illegal #immigration, those coming need to see an outflow by the tens & hundreds of thousands. That will deter. The only #policy change that will work is to have #MassDeportations.”
I didn't expect to have fun talking about GDPR, CRA, DMA, DSA, and all those WTFs but my colleague Denise did a stellar job at making her policy work accessible!
Because tech doesn't exist in the void, it's important to understand the role of policy & compliance people and how their expertise is crucial to us.
My new med for RA finally arrived by delivery courier. This is after 6 weeks of talking to the drug manufacturer, 2 speciality pharmacists, doing paperwork, intake phone calls, and finally scheduling a delivery.
The med is covered under a provincial ‘compassionate care’ program because it costs $6,200 USD / month out of pocket.
I share because it’s important to know what we go through. We don’t choose to be sick. We don’t want this. We just want to be well. 💜
New #eugenics in #Canada emerged from #covid & vulnerable populations have pretty much been abandoned to fend for ourselves. Our #PublicHealth authorities are sacrificing the elderly, the disabled, the immunocompromised & also people struggling with mental illnesses. They'll help you kill yourself but won't help you much with getting essential #medical help/services that are needed to live & to manage medical issues.
Horrible history repeats itself. Marginalized are punished for being alive.
@msquebanh Not all eugenicists were sterilizers who hated (whatever particular group), but most people don't realize how damned popular eugenics was. The polite version provided ample political cover for genocide, sterilization, baby snatching, all of which occurred up through the 1970s, even 1980s in some corners of the industrial world.
The US Federal Communications Commission ( #FCC ) has re-instated its Net Neutrality #policy which was removed by Trump appointees. It's taken Biden this long to get a commissioner who supports it onto the FCC - his previous appointee was rejected by the Senate. This article explains what #netneutrality is and some of the hurdles yet to cross. https://www.pocket-lint.com/what-is-net-neutrality/
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Tomasz Poprawka: « la recherche est aujourd’hui l’un des piliers politiques essentiels de l’Union européenne ».
Usually science administrators prefer to hide behind a Popperian curtain of political neutrality - even where actual scientists <@ScientistRebellion > get arrested - but the actual disconnect between the scientific consensus and the miasma exhaled by certain political agendas is now so obvious that even the conservative academies of science are accepting that they are, indeed, political actors with moral responsibilities.
«Les élections de juin ne seront pas normales, elles seront cruciales dans un contexte de très fortes incertitudes.» ( Patrizio Bianchi)
Our medical centre has just put up some of its fees ($63 a visit) and introduced "Note that appointments running over time will be charged at $20 per 5 minutes, including for community services card holders. A standard appointment only allows 10 minutes of consultation and 5 minutes for your clinician to make notes. Only one item can be addressed safely in a standard consultation." (NZ$)
What sort of charges do you experience where ever you are in the world?
@leighelse@bananabob Our local pharmacy is now much more than a pharmacy. They do blood pressure checks, blood sugar level testing, consultations and dispensing of over the counter meds for minor ailments. Inoculations.
The @EU_Commission has launched a public #policy consultation on the rules defining the European #standards system (aka regulation 1025). The top-line for me is it completely ignores #OpenSource while making both engagement in standardisation and use of standards very hard for open source community members.
Unsurprisingly, the consultation's survey makes it extremely hard to tell them this! I think @osi will be attaching a letter to its input! The deadline is July 25.
Thanks! I checked through those searching for an answer the question of "How much of 'all' software is FOSS or depends on FOSS?", but I could only find one study, not a range of studies - Synopsys - whose full report requires email registration (and it's not a peer-reviewed research paper): https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/open-source-trends-ossra-report.html
A fun #medical story from my past week… I’m trying to share the positives.
I had a surgical procedure Monday and had 4 nurses involved during various steps. My 2 surgical nurses knew what POTS was and treated me so well - they gave me extra fluids. :)
My last nurse in recovery… her 16 year old daughter has #POTS. What did I do? Of course I talked to her and answered questions and was an advocate… on my surgical bed… because that’s what I do. 💜☺️
@metin Sorry for writing this, but it was the very first thing that came to my mind when I saw your post:
"That's nothing at all: TikTok can destroy an entire brain within seconds!" 😊