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@agingdoc1 This is interesting finding. Happy to share coffee and colorectal cancer Association below.

Vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet, but it's equally important to avoid implying that any single food or diet can treat cancer. The strongest evidence supports a balanced dietary pattern, maintaining a healthy weight, staying physically active, and ensuring patients receive timely, evidence-based cancer care.

@shashiiyengar We often treat exercise as a 30-minute event. But health is shaped by what happens during the other 23.5 hours. Sitting less isn't a substitute for exercise—it's another pillar of metabolic health. Our environments should make movement the default, not the exception.

Road deaths aren't "accidents." They're policy failures. Every child killed crossing a street, every cyclist hit, every pedestrian run over reflects a decision: speed over safety. Safe roads don't happen by awareness campaigns alone. They happen when governments redesign streets so human mistakes don't become death sentences.

Fascinating observation. Why do you think tendon pain has become so common today? Is it aging, sedentary lifestyles punctuated by "weekend warrior" exercise, obesity, poor recovery, or something else? More importantly, what changes would you recommend—for both clinicians and the public—to reverse this trend? I am 50 and I myself feel it.

This is a classic example of reducing a population-level outcome to a single food. Height isn't built by milk or meat alone. It's shaped by genetics, maternal nutrition, childhood diet quality, infections, sanitation, healthcare, and household income. Nutrition is a system, not a single ingredient.

We fear heart attacks. We should also fear what patients catch after reaching the hospital. In an Indian CCU study, 271 hospital-acquired infections were documented. 29% were urinary tract infections, Acinetobacter baumannii was the leading pathogen, and several frontline antibiotics were already failing. Meanwhile, 1 in 10 patients globally acquires a healthcare-associated infection.

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A healthy diet is not just a personal choice. It is a policy outcome. When ultra-processed food is cheaper than fresh food, when children see junk food ads before they can read, and when labels hide what is in the package, the system is making the unhealthy choice the easy choice. Cities and governments already have proven tools: front-of-pack labels, taxes on sugary drinks, restrictions on marketing to children, breastfeeding support, and policies that make healthy food available in schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods. The question is no longer “What works?” The question is “Why are we not implementing it at the scale this crisis demands?”

@masterprogram1 That anger is understandable. But beyond the immediate injuries, there's another cost we rarely measure: the lasting psychological trauma for protesters, families, children, and even bystanders who witness the violence. Those scars can persist long after the streets are quiet.

We often talk about the physical injuries of protests. We rarely talk about the invisible ones. Watching your child face tear gas, batons, or violence can leave parents with lasting anxiety, fear, helplessness, and trauma. Communities carry these psychological scars long after the streets are cleared.

Important caveat: this is an association, not proof of causation. But combined with growing evidence linking microplastics to inflammation and vascular injury, it's another reason to tackle air pollution, tobacco, and plastic contamination together—not separately.

🚨 Plastic may be reaching your heart. Not metaphorically—literally. We worry about cholesterol and blood pressure. But a new study found microplastics in the coronary blood of 84% of patients with severe heart attacks, versus 32–40% in others. Researchers say this doesn't prove cause, but strengthens concern that pollution, smoking, and plastics may fuel cardiovascular disease through inflammation. Your environment may be becoming a heart risk factor. #HeartHealth #Microplastics #PublicHealth

We often ask, "How do we treat mental illness?" The better question is: Why are so many young people reaching crisis in the first place? Prevention means tackling loneliness, unhealthy digital environments, social pressure, unsafe urban design, family stress, and making mental health part of everyday primary care—not an expensive last resort. #WorldBrainDay

I walked into a private mental health clinic. Expected an empty room. Found it packed with teenagers. Parents outside, working out which bill to skip this month. This isn't a mental health crisis. It's a societal one. Isolation. Endless scrolling. Grades that decide your worth. Cities built with no room to breathe, let alone heal. Mental health can't stay something you buy after you break. It belongs in primary care — before people end up here. #WorldBrainDay

@WeatherMonitors Every flood is blamed on "extreme weather." Convenient. It shifts attention away from illegal construction, vanished wetlands, poor urban planning, and decades of political neglect. Rain exposed the system. It didn't create it.

We often think of brain health as what we eat or how we sleep. But what we consume digitally may be just as important. An unhealthy information environment can quietly increase stress, anxiety, polarization, and loneliness. Protecting brain health also means protecting our information ecosystem. #WorldBrainDay

Awareness is important, but prevention starts long before diagnosis. Brain health is shaped by clean air, safe neighborhoods, quality education, meaningful social connections, and strong primary health care. Investing upstream is how we reduce the burden downstream. #WorldBrainDay

@UN @WHO These are important individual actions. But what can the UN do to help protect brain health when people live in unstable environments—conflict, displacement, violence, disasters, or chronic uncertainty? Brain health is also shaped by the conditions we create. #WorldBrainDay

On #WorldBrainDay, one question: What does a young mind feel after seeing today's scenes from Delhi? If you have not - google it. Fear, anxiety, uncertainty, helplessness—these leave marks that no scan can detect. Brain health is shaped not only by biology, but by the world we ask people to navigate.

The irony? Climate change isn't just making the air hotter—it's making it dirtier. Heat, drought, dust storms and wildfires are turning nature into a pollution amplifier. Air quality policy can no longer ignore climate policy. #ClimateHealth #AirPollution

Factories need a permit to pollute. Heatwaves don't ask anyone's permission. In Delhi, Jakarta, Bangkok — heat, drought, and fire smoke can spike PM2.5 by 200% on average, up to 800% in extreme events. Way past WHO limits. We regulate the polluter we can see. Nobody's regulating the one you're breathing right now. #ClimateHealth #AirPollution