Posted on 06/16/2019 5:26:57 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Sounds like a misleading study omitting the reason why a group of people would be on a sub-2500 mg sodium diet in the first place.
Standard American Diet is around 3400 milligrams of sodium a day.
The 2500 milligrams they mention in their study is essentially what the normal DASH diet recommends. DASH stands for “Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension”. It’s a salt level recommended for normal people in order to prevent hypertension.
There is a stricter, lower salt version of the DASH diet aiming for 1500 milligrams. People on that low of a sodium diet will be people who already have high blood pressure.
It’s the same “counterintuitive” reason why people on a sub 2000 calorie diet would be fatter than those eating more calories than that.
So far, I don’t have any of these issues at 66...I was hoping they might say stopping “convenience” abortions would save “x-millions” from premature death...
My guide is a 93 year old friend an mentor. He has several bionic body parts, a young chick girlfriend (only 72) whom he takes on round-the-world trips, and flies around with in his own airplane. He does this with just reasonable attention to nutrition and exercise, but remains very active mentally and in business. It's a good goal for most of us.
I disagree with you on that. To me, it conjures up images of the wrong end.
Every single one of these objectives can be achieved by education leading to dietary corrections.
And yet the fact is that (1) most of these problems are among the diets of the folks in the most developed nations (who eat more processed foods and fewer natural foods), and (b) there is zero lack of education about good diet in the most developed countries. Therefor, bad habits are bad habits and other than the governments getting dictatorial they can only be changed by people chosing to change.
“Cancer is preventable? Other than *maybe* smoking, how so?”
Personally, I think major stress in your life messes negatively with the cells that fight cancer. If you can eliminate or significantly reduce stress factors it could help.
As a cancer survivor, looking back, I blame stress as a possible culprit.
Yeah, that may be true. Unfortunately there are 4 people dependent on my tax dollars to suppot them. I can’t stop working, reduce stress, because the 4 + my family rely on me working. Remove the 4 parasites and I could probably cut back some. The down side to a progressive tax code.
My BIL talked about getting close to SS benefits. His benefits will be half mine even though I paid in 5X what he did. Damn leaches. I guess his Lower stress life will pay off. I guess I should smoke dope, get paid a lot less and depend on others.
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