Salt - It's Good Fro You
I’m waiting for a flip-flop on statin drugs.
Salt - It's Good Fro You
It it weren't for bad science, we'd have no science at all.
And what is the chance that they end the requirement to measure and label products with the Sodium content?
I can answer that. There is no chance that will happen.
I happen to believe red meat is also good for you in moderation. The latest lameness out said that it removes years from your life every time you eat it.
Most of the time the ‘researchers’ and the media get it 100% completely backwards. The correlations are there, but the cause/effect analysis is wrong.
Also, they say they control for all variables, but they can’t and don’t. They don’t know all the variables. Something may be a variable but they have excluded it.
Like the stuff about Siberians living longer because of yogurt. Obviously had nothing to do with the yogurt but everything to do with the cold climate. The ‘researchers’ are too stupid to see that the climate is a big influence on health.
“The whole aim of practical politics (and the media) 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.”
H. L mencken
There's Good Salt and Bad Salt...Know The Difference!
Many experts argue that salt could be just what we need for healing, health and longevity. Modern salt, they agree, is unhealthy. But common table salt has almost nothing in common with traditional salt, say the salt connoisseurs. Just look at the rose-coloured crystals of Himalayan rock salt, or the grey texture of Celtic salt -- both pride themselves on traditional harvesting, avoiding heat treatment or refining methods -- and you know you're getting something special, not least that when you taste them, they actually have flavour. And unlike the sodium chloride you find on most kitchen tables, unrefined rock salt contains more than 84 different minerals.
We've had only Himalayan Salt for our family for probably a decade. The stuff rocks! (I even carry a small bottle in my purse.) http://products.mercola.com/himalayan-salt/
I so hope this is true about salt. One of my sons is about to be very happy, after dealing with my salt-free cooking for years.
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Salt - good in moderation, watch intake in winter since we sweat less in cold weather. Lot of salty foods increase my BP and I check my BP daily so I have seen the correlation first hand.
Red Meat - Wonderful nutritionally but good only in moderation. Has lots of saturated fats which will help clog up arteries with prolonged use.
Sugar - Exercise burns it up, sedentary lifestyles should watch intake. Moderation is good.
Fat - Best ingredient in diet to control blood sugar levels and weight, it digests slower than carbs, so you will not get hungry sooner. Moderation is good. In my opinion 100 calories from fat are better than 100 calories from carbs.
Coffee - Stimulates brain activity, but can cause increased release of stomach acid. Good in moderation and with food.
Aspirin - Wonder drug, dissolves blood clots and thins out blood, helps reduce pain and fever, controls arthritic pain. Can cause stomach bleeding because it is a blood thinner. Best taken with food in moderation.
Beer & Wine: Good in moderation, very harmful in large quantities. It kills a few brain cells with every drink and adults do not grow new brain cells. Alcohol is seen as poison by your liver and it has to work hard to get rid of it and can lead to cirrhosis of liver (fatty liver).
Common thread in all of above: MODERATION.
We are to use common sense, We must have salt and people living where crops have depleted the nutrients from the soil, especially in the south, there are many people with ‘goiters’ which is caused by the depletion of iodine. Thus the reason for iodine salt being available. Let us supplement our diets with vitamins in an basic daily on going way to obtain all the body requires to function well. The chemicals pushing the soil to bear abundant crops are not necessarily wise or good for the people eating the food. Thank thee LORD for giving us a beautiful healthy world that has been contaminated by man. Help us LORD, we know not what to do., In Jesus name, amen.
As far as the health effects of Sodium consumption are concerned the fact that entire cities (Salzburg, Austria for example) and ancient civilizations were built around access to salt, and even the old phrases "worth his salt" and "salt of the earth" are still in use, should be clues that the "experts" who counseled people to eliminate salt from their diets are the same kind as those who define the chemical which forms the basis of all life on this planet (Carbon) as a "pollutant".
This doesn't mean people cannot harm themselves by consuming too much Salt, they can't suffocate in a room filled with CO2, and that their hearts won't eventually give out when they approach that magic number 400 lbs. on the bathroom scale. People can die of drinking too much pure water, for God's sake. But when an "expert" comes around crying that the age old wisdom and habits of our ancestors, who if they made it past childhood disease and the blunt force trauma of wars fought with sharpened stones and steel tended to live about as long as we do (three score and ten) take anything they have to say "with a grain of salt".
There have been other studies coming to this conclusion. They were ignored, but not by me. I do better with salt than without it. Give me a double.
Saliva will cause cancer, but only if swalled in small amounts over a long period of time.