Posted on 01/06/2012 9:14:54 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
Has the tide turned for salt in 2012? Salt faces regular demonization from the media, lawmakers, and food police, with the hyperbolic Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) even calling it the “deadly white powder you already snort.” But as cardiologist-turned-chef Michael S. Fenster points out in The Atlantic, studies have not conclusively shown that a reduction in dietary sodium equates with a reduction in hypertension or its resulting effects.
Fenster also notes that while this theory “makes for great slogans, off the cuff advice, and lazy recommendations,” it “also makes for poor publicly mandated policy.” Big Apple Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants sodium restrictions, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking into regulation after a recommendation by the Institute of Medicine.
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Well, If the British can say water doesn’t hydrate, we can believe most anything.
No doctor here - not even a health care worker. Just someone who has seen friends and close family members deal with cardiac-related issues.
When someone easts a controlled diet - and see cardiac-related edema decrease - then see the edema return after one difference - too much salt... what are we suppose to think?
If the health Nazi’s keep it up with trying to prohibit Salt...I could see people smuggling Kilos of Salt into the country and selling grams on the street. Just like old fashioned incandesent light bulbs or dish washing powders that actually work. All the libs will achieve with their ban is creating a thriving black market! By the way I have quite a nice stockpile of lightbulbs if anyone cares to make an offer...LOL!
Gimme a break, sodium kills your ability to work out at a high level, and I have no doubt it makes your heart go kaput.
If the health Nazi’s keep it up with trying to prohibit Salt...I could see people smuggling Kilos of Salt into the country and selling grams on the street. Just like old fashioned incandesent light bulbs or dish washing powders that actually work. All the libs will achieve with their ban is creating a thriving black market! By the way I have quite a nice stockpile of lightbulbs if anyone cares to make an offer...LOL!
BS!!!
One year I was one point from failing my flight physical and going on a salt free diet for one month lowered my blood pressure 8 points.
Um....we need salt, BUT, each person is different, and there are DIFFERENT ways to take in salt....processed foods is probably more the problem.
Are you sure your diet didn’t include either a separate, unnoted “reduction”, or an increase in something else to help?
I don’t believe alot of hogwash about what we should or shouldn’t eat. Many things have pros and cons and in the end, it doesn’t matter. It all evens out.
Most people have no problem with salt, there are a few that have salt sensitive hypertension. But the idea that "salt is evil" is stupid.
Sodium is necessary for life. You don't have it and you die. That is why the human tongue has so many taste buds devoted to salt.
I invite the anti-sodium zealots to go on a sodium free diet. In a few weeks I will send dandelions to their funerals.
No doubt that is true, and that is precisely why government has no business regulating what we eat. As you can see from the other comments, many folks here disagree with the article I posted. That’s fine. We all need as much information as we can get and then we need to make our own decisions about our health and diet.
Salt was the only thing I changed.
I’ve kept it very low ever since and the doctor this year told me to start eating more since my sodium was low.
My blood pressure has remained about the same for the last 35 years, 130/70.
Thank you. I was beginning to feel a bit roasted. ;-)
I have never bought into any of the RESEARCH projects, as no coffee/caffine, no this, no that. 10 yrs later they then say it causes no harm. lol.
. But hey, if people want to be in their Research, go for it. They get to do all that research for FREE, frankly the joke is on the public.
The accuracy of a blood pressure test is +/- 20 points.
You experienced no change in a statistically significant sense.
Tell that to the FAA when you get your license jerked!!!
80 on the lower number and you lose!
That’s common among older people whose hearts are failing.
I think the article is addressing younger, healthier people.
Oh. You mean the Feds. They have no use for facts. ;)
I don’t think the argument is really any individual’s choice. If someone believes low sat is helping, then by all means go low salt. The real question is whether the gov’t should regulate salt. That answer should be clear.
If you don't meet the criteria set down by their board of physicians you lose your license.
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