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Justin Moore, MD, has thoughts.

Tax with your liquid sugar?

Tax with your liquid sugar?

Sausage Linkfest April 21, 2017

April 21, 2017

Like them or not, soda taxes seem to work. That is, they work to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage consumption. Time will tell if we can trace any health benefit back to them, like we did with trans fat bans. 

School shouldn't start before 8:30, say the sleep people.

Biking to work is associated with a 41% reduction in the risk of dying over five years. Biking was also associated with 45% lower rates of cancer and a 40% lower risk of dying of cancer. And, as has been noted here before, it's associated with having a shitload more money in your bank account.

Even short-term corticosteroid use is harmful, says a review in the BMJ, with accompanying coverage from the NYT. This is ironic, considering a very recent well-publicized study advocating for 10 mg of dexamethasone in place of antibiotics for sore throat. So a couple comments: first, even the "low-dose" steroids the BMJ article talks about constitute a potentially huge dose (20 mg daily). Second, 10 mg of dexamethasone is just a gigantic, chemotherapy-level dose. It is saved by the fact that dexamethasone has a half-life of only ~3 hours, so most of it is gone by the second day. But still...whatever happened to chicken soup and time for things to get better? *sigh* I guess dexamethasone isn't any worse than the cursed "Z-Pak" that urgent cares seem to hand out like Halloween candy. 

In links to health Tags sleep disturbance, sleep, soda tax, trans fat, corticosteroids, azithromycin, cycling, heart disease, cancer
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