Posted on 08/27/2014 10:02:02 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
A number of years ago, I was given a salt sensitivity test (twice, actually) at Cornell in NYC, and was told by the director of the clinic, Dr. Laragh, that, based on the test results, I did not have to restrict my salt intake.
Mark Twain advised that if you can't get to 70 by a comfortable road, don't go.
Same for me after my triple-bypass operation. The usual diet lecture "because of your blood pressure" (which was 130/76 last visit) "avoid salt, red meat, smiling, singing & dancing" (just kidding about the last 3). This was in 2003.
In his famous quote. HL Menken said, "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." While I am NOT saying that there are NO dangers in excessive salt consumption, I have seen "an endless series of (dietary) hobgoblins" decried in the press and in medical "conventional wisdom".
Salt
Red meat
Fat
Margarine
Butter
High fructose corn syrup
GMO foods
Whole milk
Caffeine
Red dye # whatever
MSG
There have also been a whole slew of "magic bullet" diets such as oat bran, organic, herbal, vegan, "eat-while-facing-the-rising-sun-and-chanting-OOOOOOMMMMM." Yet I know folks who usually subsist on millet porridge plus cattle blood & milk. I even managed to survive for a while in 1969 on a diet of C-rations canned in 1956. :-)
/rant
"For what we are about to receive, oh Lord, make us truly grateful. Amen"
You left two biggies of the lefties bad food lists:
bacon n eggs
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