Your hosts today are Wojtek and Marc, with Lynn contributing but not available in studio
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You may or may not have noticed but nail salons are becoming more common in Canada.
If you’ve been in one you may also have noticed there are a lot of fumes from the various chemicals.
These fumes are known to cause respiratory and skin problems, and even potentially cancer, and birth defects.
Researchers are now asking legislators to create regulations to reduce the health risks. These include regulations for better ventilation for example. and other controls on the various chemicals.
Wojtek spoke with Anne Rochon Ford, a research associate in Toronto Ontario at York University’s National Network on Environments and Women’s Health
Another health concern this week involves toddlers.
A study out of theUnites States of pre-packaged food and snacks for toddlers when tested were found to have excessive levels of salt and suger
Although not quite as common in Canada, they are beginning to show up more and more on store shelves.
Dieticians are concerned that if toddlers consume them, they’ll develop preferences for salty and sweetened foods in later life and that can lead to future health problems
Lynn spoke with Becky Blair a public health nutritionist in Barrie Ontario and spokeswoman for the Dieticians of Canada.
On another health related item this week, a new study shows too much salt can have a physical and possibly permanent effect on receptors in the brain connected with controlling blood pressure.
Lead by researchers at McGill University in Canada, the international team found the receptors in the brain which release a hormone connected with kidney function, are shut down in a biochemical reaction when sodium levels are too high.
This prevents another body function and receptors in the major heart arteries from performing their role as a safety switch and instructing the receptors to release or stop releasing the hormone.
Its a complicated process, and the “damage” may be permanent.
Marc sope with Charles Bourqu, a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill, and who also works in the Centre for Research in Neuroscience at the Montreal General Hospital.
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