Posted on 03/22/2013 8:36:23 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
On the heels of a study linking sugary drinks to 25,000 U.S. deaths a year, new research suggests salty food is even more dangerous.
The new study, by the same Harvard research team, linked excessive salt consumption to nearly 2.3 million cardiovascular deaths worldwide in 2010. One in 10 Americans dies from eating too much salt, the researchers found.
“The burden of sodium is much higher than the burden of sugar-sweetened beverages,” said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and author of both the salt and sugary drink studies. “That’s because sugar-sweetened beverages are just one type of food that people can avoid, whereas sodium is in everything.”
Mozaffarian and colleagues used data from 247 surveys on sodium intake and 107 clinical trials that measured how salt affects blood pressure, and how blood pressure contributes to cardiovascular disease like heart attacks and stroke.
“From that we could determine the health effects of sodium,” he said, adding that one out of three deaths due to excessive sodium occurred before age 70. “It’s really affecting younger adults, not just the elderly.”
The study, presented today at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting in New Orleans, adds to mounting evidence that packaged and processed foods containing high levels of salt for flavor and shelf life can take a heavy toll on cardiovascular health.
“It’s really amazing how pervasive it is,” Mozaffarian said of salt. “For the average person, it’s very hard to avoid salt – you have to be incredibly motivated, incredibly educated, have access to a range of foods and do all the cooking yourself.”
But not everything is easy to whip up at home, Mozaffarian added. Bread and cheese are the top two sources of sodium in the U.S.
“It’s everywhere,” he said.
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Another year,another study,another point of view.
Ignore all studies.
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Everyone who dies has one thing in common - they were ingesting oxygen just before they died. It’s the dang oxygen that we have to put a stop to!
Yo, O - how much grant money can you spot me to prove it?
Life on Earth started in the ocean. Ocean salinity is 3.5%. The human womb's salinity, not coincidentally, is 3.5%. That's salty. After billions of years some things never change because they can't.
Thanks for the tips about magnesium and iodine.
Hey, don’t blame me, dude. I just took that line from a novel I was reading.
Besides, who are you to oppress our transgendered bovine brothers? :-) (just kidding!)
Sodium is not salt. NACL is salt.
If salt is so unhealthy then why did the British control it, and why did Gandhi make it?
you’re welcome; everyone needs iodine. take Lugol’s (liquid) or Iodoral (pill form). Those are the only 2 worthy of consumption. All the others, for the most part, don’t have the right ratio of iodine to iodide or they are too low of a dose.
mounting evidence that packaged and processed foods containing high levels of salt for flavor and shelf life
Those foods are high in hydrogenated trans fats, industrial seed oils, sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup, and salt, and are low in any sort of nutrition.
And they conclude that they are unhealthy because of the salt?
Stuff and nonsense.
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