- Salt, pepper and pills | Poll
Cardiologists have suggested fast-food restaurants offer statins along with sachets of condiments, to protect against heart disease. Should you be able to pick up pills with your pepper?
循環器は、ファストフードレストランは調味料の袋と一緒に、心臓病を防ぐためにスタチンを提供して提案している
- Sarah Boseley explains: What's happened to the UK's health?
The Guardian's health editor introduces our health factfile - and the full dataset behind it• Get the data• Tomorrow: politicsHealth, as the work of Professor Sir Michael Marmot most recently eloquently demonstrated, is in no small part a function of where and to whom you were born. The most deprived communities, where jobs are low-paid if not scarce and those who make it to university are a talking point rather than the norm, are also those where cancer rates, heart disease and strokes are high. One government after another has been uncomfortably aware of this and made promises to do something about it. It has always defeated them.But while the health inequality gap persists, the UK's health overall has been getting better. Comprehensive childhood immunisation programmes have virtually wiped out some diseases. Smoking has become the number one public health target, and although we still struggle to get certain groups - young women and people in those deprived areas particularly - to quit, the public smoking ban, high taxes and campaigns have had an impact that must show up in lower rates of lung and other cancers and reduced heart disease. Diagnosis and treatment of cancer has improved - even if we still trail much of Europe in death rates. The politicians (and the drug companies) argue that is because we don't buy the newest, most expensive cancer drugs. The cancer tsar, Professor Mike Richards, will tell you it is because we are slow to diagnose the disease, especially in those deprived areas (again) where men and women do not stride into the GP's surgery demanding attention.In recent years, the health gap has become visible, manifesting itself in obesity, which is often most rife among those with less money and less education, who are more likely to buy affordable a ガーディアンの健康エディタは我々の健康factfileを紹介 - と背後には、データ•明日：politicsHealth教授サーマイケルマーモットの仕事最近雄弁に示すように入手してください？完全なデータセットはごく一部にの関数であると相手に生まれた
- How Hillary Clinton's clean stoves will help African women | Madeleine Bunting
Poorly ventilated small fires are claiming millions of lives – as wood for them wrecks the environmentOne of the most powerful women in the world is talking about cooking stoves. Thank God. Today, Hillary Clinton will describe the huge impact that something as simple as cooking fuel has on millions of lives. Want to know what is one of the leading causes of death for women and small children? You might imagine HIV/Aids or, given the focus on maternal mortality at the UN Summit in New York, you might suggest that women's greatest risk is death in childbirth. But just as dangerous and much less well publicised is the risk of inhaling smoke from cooking on open fires which leads to lung and heart diseases. According to the United Nations, smoke costs 1.9 million lives a year.Think about it; every day, millions of women across Africa and India spend several hours crouched over small fires cooking. Often their homes have no chimneys and poor ventilation. This daily proximity destroys lungs. Small children staying close to their mothers are equally vulnerable. Finally, this huge story is percolating through to the mainstream. Clinton is due to announce $50m (£32m) in seed money to the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, to supply 100m fuel-efficient stoves across Africa.What makes this situation so frustrating is that it is as destructive of the environment as it is of human tissue. In many countries, chopping trees for firewood is leading to long-term environmental degradation. When I visited western Uganda, the results were shockingly evident. The beautiful hills are now largely stripped bare of trees, much of the deforestation has occurred in the last 50 years, and the results are long run-off scars across the hills where rain has washed the soil away. Further environmen 不十分な生活の何百万人を主張している小さな火を換気 - 彼らのために木材として世界的に調理ストーブについて話している最も強力な女性のenvironmentOneを大破
- Letters: Red light for junk food labelling
Restricting unhealthy junk food outlets around schools as recommended by Nice, the health watchdog (Free choice isn't healthy for the food industry's menu, 23 June), is a policy which some brave pioneering councils in London such as Waltham Forest and Tower Hamlets have already adopted. They are trying to reduce childhood obesity and to break up the concentrations of deep-fried chicken and other junk food outlets that have taken such a grip on some of their high streets. The government's reported lack of enthusiasm for this on the grounds of restricting consumer choice is baffling. I hope the London mayor Boris Johnson provides supportive planning policies in his London plan to help councils to limit damaging food outlets around schools and help them encourage the availability and sale of healthier food choices.Jenny Jones AMGreen, London assembly• Felicity Lawrence is right to champion new guidance on tackling heart disease but thankfully she is wrong to say it comes too late to make a difference. The European parliament vote against traffic-light labels last week was a serious setback. But it is not the end of the road for improved food labels that help people make healthy choices more easily. The European council and commission are still discussing the issue and they could tip the balance in favour of public health over food industry profits.We – and many others – are still fighting to make this happen because the right food labels are important if we are to turn the tide on obesity, a huge risk factor for heart disease. More than 2,400 of our supporters wrote to their MEP in favour of traffic-light labels too, proving there is a groundswell of public support for traffic-light labels. We will not let the might of the food industry's lobbying power put us off campaign ニースで推奨されて学校周辺不健全なジャンクフードの店を制限する、健康監視（無料の選択は、食品業界のメニュー、23月）、ウォルサムフォレスト、タワーハムレットなどのロンドンのいくつかの勇敢な先駆的な協議会がある政策であるために健康ではない既に採択された
- Thais suffering from chronic diseases
More Thai people are suffering from five chronic diseases - diabetes, high blood pressure, Ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular accident and chronic respiratory symptoms, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Sunday. ほかのタイの人々 5慢性疾患-糖尿病、高血圧、虚血性心臓病、脳血管障害や慢性呼吸器症状に苦しんでいると、保健省が30日報じた
- Guardian Daily podcast: Thousands of bodies unburied in Haiti as survivors await aid; plus David Miliband on Afghanistan
Ed Pilkington reports from the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, where thousands of bodies are lying unburied after last week's devastating earthquake. Broadcaster Andy Kershaw, a frequent visitor to Haiti, gives his reaction to the effects of last week's 7-magnitude earthquake.Foreign secretary David Miliband tells dipomatic editor Julian Borger of his hopes for Afghanistan in 2010, as the UK government prepares to host an international conference in London.Leading doctors have called on the government to follow the example of places such as New York and Denmark by banning manmade fats in food. Professor Alan Maryon-Davis, president of the UK Faculty of Public Health - which represents 3,300 doctors and health professionals - outlines the risks of heart disease associated with artificial trans fats.Hilary Osborne reports on the ancient ritual of wassailing - which involves serenading apple trees - from cider-makers Gaymers' orchard in Stewley, Somerset.Jon DennisIain ChambersTim Maby
ハイチの首都港からエドピルキントンレポートポルトープランス、ここで遺体の先週の壊滅的な地震の後に埋められていない横たわっている
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