I'm pretty sure we are still operating at 100%.
Sleeper effect!
Animals will travel many miles to get salt. I think if chips weren’t salted no one would eat them. We need salt.
A good dieting strategy is when craving chips, etc just put a small amt of salt in your hand and lick it.
Long ago, I decided that most food warnings are just the marketing scheme of the moment. The nutritionists or scientists proclaiming that eggs are bad, pork will kill you or coffee is toxic are usually being paid for their “study”, much like the global warming advocates.
For those that are up in arms over this revelation, hang around for a while because there will be an article in the future which says just the opposite. I think people should eat what they want when they want it - but perhaps everything in moderation. It distresses me though that food processors are forced to keep up with this nonsense.
This is a bad habit of medical researchers and doctors — insisting that a single variable is what matters in a complex system.
Sodium is in a delicate balance in the body with potassium, calcium and magnesium, as well as a host of lesser minerals as well as vitamins. If you change the balance of one, it affects the balance of the others. Too much of anything is not good, nor is too little of anything. Even minerals that are *deadly* in quantity are often *essential* in small amounts.
Importantly, such balances can be different, based on genetics and environment. For example, the continent of Africa is geologically very old, so most of its salts and metals have been leeched from its topsoil. Thus over many generations, Africans became more sensitive to having greater amounts of salts and metals in their diets.
Europe and North America, however, is geologically new, so has far more salts and metals in their topsoil. Thus over many generations, those of European ancestry developed far greater tolerances to salts and metals.
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I dont trust any studies outside the US now.
Gov paying healthcare wins when people die prematurely and quickly. How can I believe any findings from these places?