Decoding increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases
Background: In recent times, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have attained epidemic status in India and several other countries. Globally, each year, NCDs cause premature deaths of nearly 40 million people younger than 60 years accounting for 70% of all deaths; 80% of these premature deaths are repo...
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| description | Background: In recent times, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have attained epidemic status in India and several other countries. Globally, each year, NCDs cause premature deaths of nearly 40 million people younger than 60 years accounting for 70% of all deaths; 80% of these premature deaths are reportedly in the low- and middle-income countries. Many studies have reported increasing prevalence of NCDs such as type 2 diabetes, coronary and pulmonary diseases, and cancer. Incidentally, all these studies besides discussing environmental pollution have grossly ignored dietary profiling of affected populace despite the fact that several studies have established a direct correlation between food quality and good health.
Objective: Besides pollutants, an attempt is made to analyze mathematically effects of dietary changes over the last four decades on constantly increasing prevalence of NCDs at cellular level. A relationship seems to exist between increasing prevalence of NCD and large-scale consumption of synthetic salt.
Conclusions: Elimination of essential trace elements and micro- and macro-minerals in regular diet through synthetic salt fortified with iodine alone appears to cause more harm than benefits associated with iodization of salt than pollutants. Regular intake of essential trace elements is necessary for normal functioning of many fundamental functions of the body such as Na-K pump, electron–proton transport, biochemistry, and thermodynamics. An attempt has been made to study effects of salt constituents used in food at the most fundamental cellular level by means of disturbances in body electrolyte through heat and ion transport mechanism that is fundamental to various underlying processes in human body. Interestingly, almost all the families who switched over to unprocessed rock salt from synthetic iodized salt reported improvement in general health and reported reduction in medical visits. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-98b5153b5e644c8482af946c738b9b9b2022-12-21T23:01:19ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsInternational Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases2468-88272468-88352018-01-013413914410.4103/jncd.jncd_46_18Decoding increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseasesAlok K S ThakurBackground: In recent times, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have attained epidemic status in India and several other countries. Globally, each year, NCDs cause premature deaths of nearly 40 million people younger than 60 years accounting for 70% of all deaths; 80% of these premature deaths are reportedly in the low- and middle-income countries. Many studies have reported increasing prevalence of NCDs such as type 2 diabetes, coronary and pulmonary diseases, and cancer. Incidentally, all these studies besides discussing environmental pollution have grossly ignored dietary profiling of affected populace despite the fact that several studies have established a direct correlation between food quality and good health. Objective: Besides pollutants, an attempt is made to analyze mathematically effects of dietary changes over the last four decades on constantly increasing prevalence of NCDs at cellular level. A relationship seems to exist between increasing prevalence of NCD and large-scale consumption of synthetic salt. Conclusions: Elimination of essential trace elements and micro- and macro-minerals in regular diet through synthetic salt fortified with iodine alone appears to cause more harm than benefits associated with iodization of salt than pollutants. Regular intake of essential trace elements is necessary for normal functioning of many fundamental functions of the body such as Na-K pump, electron–proton transport, biochemistry, and thermodynamics. An attempt has been made to study effects of salt constituents used in food at the most fundamental cellular level by means of disturbances in body electrolyte through heat and ion transport mechanism that is fundamental to various underlying processes in human body. Interestingly, almost all the families who switched over to unprocessed rock salt from synthetic iodized salt reported improvement in general health and reported reduction in medical visits.http://www.ijncd.org/article.asp?issn=2468-8827;year=2018;volume=3;issue=4;spage=139;epage=144;aulast=SHimalayan saltiodine deficiency disorderiodine-induced hyperthyroidismiodized saltion transport mechanismNa/K pumpnoncommunicable diseaseproton pumpsea salt |
| spellingShingle | Alok K S Thakur Decoding increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases Himalayan salt iodine deficiency disorder iodine-induced hyperthyroidism iodized salt ion transport mechanism Na/K pump noncommunicable disease proton pump sea salt |
| title | Decoding increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases |
| title_full | Decoding increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases |
| title_fullStr | Decoding increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases |
| title_full_unstemmed | Decoding increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases |
| title_short | Decoding increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases |
| title_sort | decoding increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases |
| topic | Himalayan salt iodine deficiency disorder iodine-induced hyperthyroidism iodized salt ion transport mechanism Na/K pump noncommunicable disease proton pump sea salt |
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