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Pass the Salt – Risks Linked to Low Salt Diet?
In light of the fact that approximately 90% of all Americans will develop high blood pressure during their lifetime, the American Heart Association recommends a daily intake of no more than 1,500 milligrams of sodium to reduce the risk of high blood pressure, heart attacks, stroke, and kidney disease. However, results published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) from a recent European study coordinated in Belgium have challenged the notion that a reduced sodium (salt) consumption lowers the risk of heart attacks, congestive heart failure, and stroke.
Standardized Labels to Improve Low Health Literacy
Low health literacy contributes to medication errors, noncompliance, low quality of life, and poor health outcomes. With an aging population on a never-ending stream of prescription and over-the-counter medications, the risk of confusion and misunderstanding of drug regimens is substantial. A new study published in Archives of Internal Medicine reports that most patients cannot even organize their own medications in an efficient way, let alone understand them.
Risk of Prostate Cancer? Check Your Hairline
Prostate cancer is the leading cancer among American men, but little is actually known about its causes or risk factors. Androgens -- male sex hormones -- are necessary for the growth and functioning of the prostate gland and contribute to the growth of tumors of the prostate. Androgens are also necessary for the growth and development of hair. A new study expands on this association and reports that men with prostate cancer are more than twice as likely to have had male pattern baldness beginning at age 20 than men without prostate cancer.
Too Much Information? – Labeling Restaurant Menus
Information can be a source of learning; but, when there is too much information, or it is not available in a form that can be easily understood and analyzed by the person for whom it is intended, information can be a burden. Or, too much information can simply be ignored in an over-stimulated society. Such seems to be the case when it comes to labeling restaurant menus with nutrition information.
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