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Salt May Not Be a Demon After All
Med Page Today ^ | 1/19/15 | Sarah Wickline Wallan

Posted on 01/19/2015 9:53:30 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

Increased sodium intake was not associated with higher risk of mortality over the course of 10 years in Medicare patients, Andreas P. Kalogeropoulos, MD, MPH, PhD, of Emory University, and colleagues reported in JAMA Internal Medicine.

"There's been a lot of controversy recently about the appropriate dietary sodium intake," Scott Hummel, MD, of the University of Michigan, said in an interview. "Low sodium content in the diet might increase the levels of aldosterone and catecholamines and other so-called neurohormones that might contribute to cardiovascular damage."

(Excerpt) Read more at medpagetoday.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: diet; food; hype; media; salt; sodium
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Do you hear that? LOW SODIUM LEVELS MIGHT BE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEART......

Just another reason to ignore the Obamas, the mainstream media, and the rest of the liberal establishment.

1 posted on 01/19/2015 9:53:30 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

no sugar daddies? not even aspartame ones?


2 posted on 01/19/2015 9:55:35 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I salt my food to taste... and I could care less if liberals don’t like the fact I hate bland food.


3 posted on 01/19/2015 9:56:00 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SoFloFreeper

jeesh, some say reduce salt, not maybe not. Cut out dairy - no wait that’s not right. Eat whole grains, but no...don’t eat anything with gluten. Whaddya gonna do?


4 posted on 01/19/2015 9:57:32 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Oh good grief.

Honestly, that anybody takes these people seriously at all any more amazes me.

Standing on a soap box in front of the courthouse, yelling about how the world is going to end. That’s all the MSM is, or has ever been, since time immemorial.

Yelling “fire” in a crowded theater - and then enjoying the stampede - is all these people do. It’s what gets them out of bed every morning.


5 posted on 01/19/2015 9:58:47 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This wouldn’t be the first such result. The notion that too much salt is unhealthy was never really restec on good science. It was more of a suspicion, combined with the notion that it couldn’t hurt to tell people to cut it. Like much of the standard nutritional advice. But as we’ve seen, it can cause harm to tell people to reduce elements of their diet.


6 posted on 01/19/2015 9:58:47 AM PST by mlo
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To: goldstategop

I usually include a little meat with my salt.


7 posted on 01/19/2015 9:59:56 AM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Nobody ate more salt than my dad. He would occasionally make pancakes or oatmeal for us kids and the taste salt had to be covered with extra syrup or brown sugar respectively. He had the salt shaker going during meals. He lived to be 91 and it wasn’t his heart that got him.


8 posted on 01/19/2015 10:00:37 AM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: bigbob

“some say reduce salt, not maybe not. Cut out dairy - no wait that’s not right. Eat whole grains, but no...don’t eat anything with gluten. Whaddya gonna do?”

A diet limited to coffee and cigarettes.

The only safe course.


9 posted on 01/19/2015 10:02:45 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So we are at the point now where pretty much everything I was told not to eat in the 1970s — eggs, salt, whole milk, meat — is now not only OK to eat, but not eating it may hurt me. Isn’t it wonderful that we have a government that tells us what to do?


10 posted on 01/19/2015 10:03:04 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: SoFloFreeper

God made our bodies to use sodium and other minerals, so I think that salt is good for the body, now if we intake too much, just like anything it’s probably not good.


11 posted on 01/19/2015 10:03:05 AM PST by JSDude1 ( .)
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"Funding was supported by the NIH. The authors reported no relevant financial conflicts with industry."

So the study wasn't funded by Big Salt?
12 posted on 01/19/2015 10:03:21 AM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: SoFloFreeper

Jesus said that salt is good. Never felt the need to look into it further.


13 posted on 01/19/2015 10:03:23 AM PST by BikerTrash
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To: bigbob

I wonder if drinking gallons of water every day like every single diet recommends also lowers the sodium and other mineral content of your body? You would essentially be washing some of these salts out of your body right?

The 8 glasses of water/day has no science basis so I can see where it may cause more harm than good.

My recommendation: Eat like your great grandparents did - no processed crap, mainly home cooking with fresh meats veg and fruits and not too much bread and sugar. And get some kind of daily exercise.


14 posted on 01/19/2015 10:04:41 AM PST by bigtoona
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To: goldstategop
I salt my food to taste... and I could care less if liberals don’t like the fact I hate bland food.

Niteowl77 and I frequent an establishment that always provides a big plate full o' fries - good ones - with their sandwiches, and for the last year or so, when we get our food, one or the other of us puts more salt on those fries and says, "Take THAT, Michelle Obama!"

Mr. niteowl77

15 posted on 01/19/2015 10:04:48 AM PST by niteowl77 (The five stages of Progressive persuasion: lecture, nudge, shove, arrest, liquidate.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

i like salt


16 posted on 01/19/2015 10:04:53 AM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: goldstategop

Right. A bunch of 70+ year olds have to come back years later and report their sodium intake ....


From 1997-1998, a group of 2,642 healthy participants, ages 71-79,

At the 2-year visit, participants were asked to complete a 108-item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ


17 posted on 01/19/2015 10:05:16 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: SoFloFreeper; Impy
Unbiased study brought to you by Morton:


18 posted on 01/19/2015 10:05:23 AM PST by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: Ken H

I usually include a little meat with my salt.”

That’s how everyone in my family eats You know we are salt lovers when the five-year-old stands in front of the fridge begging for a dill pickle.


19 posted on 01/19/2015 10:06:01 AM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Screw the salt Nazis. Low salt diets were krap a half century ago and they’re krap now. I settled this with my own personal Quack during my annual physicals long ago. The test is this in my case at least: If I don’t get enough salt during the day I wake up at the stroke of midnight with a Charley Horse. The fix is to limp to the kitchen and lick a few sprinkles of salt out of my palm. It doesn’t take more than 30 seconds for the Horse to start clearing and the reason is the salt starts absorbing on the way down the esophagus. The other half of the coin is that if I get too much salt I hear it in my ears. That’s fixed by drinking a little extra water.

So the salt Nazis can kiss my bleep. And Oh, BTW, the sugar Nazis can suck my popsicle for all the same reasons. It’s all about eating a balanced diet, folks.


20 posted on 01/19/2015 10:06:14 AM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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