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Letter to editor: Sloth and heart disease
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Dennis Raphael <[log in to unmask]>
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Social Determinants of Health <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:26:50 -0500
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Re: That `boomer' bulge, Toronto Star, Feb. 16, 2006

Considering the daily pummeling the Canadian public receives from the media
and associations such as the Heart and Stroke Foundation on the dangers of
sloth and indulgence, it is hard to believe that the scientific literature
finds these factors to be rather small contributers to the incidence of,
and death from, heart disease and other killers.  Instead, the research
literature demonstrates conclusively that the effects of poverty and income
insecurity, unemployment and employment insecurity, and stress and anxiety
about meeting basic needs upon these killers fars outweights the "sloth and
fat" risks. We should not be surprised that the governments respnsible for
these unpleasant living conditions prefer our gazes be averted from these
findings.  But does the media and Heart and Stroke Foundation need to be
complicit in these activities?

Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Undergraduate Programme Director
School of Health Policy & Management
Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
Ph: 416-736-2100 ext. 22134
Fax: 416-736-5227
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael

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