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Home » News from Thailand » Aging Thailand must come up with prevention plans against strokes
Thailand must make plans for stroke prevention because the country is aging rapidly. Older age remains a risk factor, yet 90 percent of strokes are preventable, says Canadian professor Vladimir Hachinski.
Hachinski received the Prince Mahidol award from Princess Sirindhorn yesterday. The British Sir Gregory Paul Winter also received that prize.
According to Hachinski, the Thai government should tax unhealthy food in order to encourage people to eat healthy. The professor was honored for setting up the Machlachlan Stroke Unit, which can help with acute strokes in patients of all ages. Canada has a number of stroke health centers that are open to everyone.
According to Hachinski, there is a link between strokes and dementia. When risk factors such as high blood pressure and poor nutrition are prevented, the number of patients can be reduced.
Source: Bangkok Post
According to Hachinski, the Thai government should tax unhealthy food in order to encourage people to eat healthy.
You really have to be a professor to launch such a retarded idea.
For every Thai (65 million) who eats, an inspector checks whether that person eats healthy.
Perhaps it would finally be possible to implement the minimum wage increase for everyone.
Or even spend more on this in order to encourage healthy eating.
But that costs money and a fine brings in money. (TIT)
I don't really know how to write down what I think about this. The good man is undoubtedly an erudite professor, but he has understood very little about Thailand… or he only speaks for his own parish.
In my immediate environment (in-laws, colleagues, neighbours) I have experienced a number of cases of illness in the past year (people between 40 and 65 years old) and all related to gastrointestinal complaints. I don't know the exact diagnosis, but the doctor's strict advice is to everyone: stop eating spicy food (before it's too late). For a neighbour, that advice came too late. He passed away a few months ago.
In addition, the number of road deaths and the number of fatalities from violent crimes (shootings and stabbings) are increasing, so that many Thai people do not grow old at all. Let's do something about that before turning our attention to age-related diseases such as strokes and diabetes.
And taxing unhealthy food? Does the professor really think that the local Thai entrepreneur (who now pays no tax at all) makes his 'som tam pala', 'moo kob' or 'pepsi in plastic' 5 Baht more expensive and then pays that amount to the government?
It is easy to shoot down an idea that has not yet been developed, but it is probably not the right reaction. Think about making products that the supermarket offers that contain a high sugar content more expensive. Luring consumers away from the competitor who is on the same tour with sweet, sweeter and sweetest, of course, does not promote the health of that consumer, but if the product containing the most (high glycemic) sugar is the most expensive, then you are through his wallet and that might work. Mind you, then the consumer will not pay more, provided he buys the product that contains the least sugar. Of course, the problem is probably a bit more complicated. Sugar isn't the only culprit. Eating healthy is more complicated, but if you succeed in promoting it as well as possible, that is the best disease prevention. No, not against traffic accidents. And that problem should also be addressed, but such a comment, with the intention of killing the discussion, is one of the type of side is still shore.
Just start looking at the plate of the average Thai: almost no or no vegetables, too spicy food, too unhealthy ingredients such as organ meat and more, too fat, too sweet, too salty, no fiber, no dairy, etc. In short, start at the beginning with nutritional advice.
I hardly see any cases of strokes in my immediate environment, but so much more cancer cases and from which people die, many between 45 and 55 years old. The Thai don't eat very healthy now either, lots of fat, sugar and certainly not forgetting the chemical junk that the farmers use in agriculture, especially when it comes from China….