Posted on 07/11/2013 12:41:32 PM PDT by servo1969
The only people I can think of who have a wider gap between Asserted Expertise and Actual Expertise than the media are nutritionists.
I don't think this applies to people specifically diagnosed with hypertension or other salt-sensitive conditions, but for most of us:
A recent report commissioned by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reviewed the health benefits of reducing salt intake and the take-home message is that salt, in the quantities consumed by most Americans, is no longer considered a substantial health hazard. What the CDC study reported explicitly is that there is no benefit, and may be a danger, from reducing our salt intake below 1 tsp per day. What was absent about the report was is the difference between healthy mineral salts and iodized table salt.It may be that we’re better off with more salt than less, up to 2 or even 3 tsp per day. How did it happen that such standard medical advice drifted astray, then went un-corrected for so long?
Because arrogant, controlling people, who really should just be kindergarten teachers, have a certain way they live their lives, or a way they think you should live your life, and they gloss over things like actual science in order to reach the conclusion that you should Do What They Want You To Do.
Please note the term “salt intake” not what we might add ourselves. Salt is so common in foods we can throw away the salt shaker and still have plenty in the diet.
Some folks take flax seed oil capsules instead of fish oil supplements.
Well I need em for dry skin, but am not interested in cancer. So I’ll give the flaxseed oil a try.
So much of "scientific research" is done in a vacuum. They do test groups by adding a single item such as Omega 3 and report their findings never taking into consideration that the subject may well be deficient in a variety of nutrients.
The coumadin is ok til the elder person gets to the point where a potential bleed from a fall makes thinning the blood counter productive in other words the potential benefits have ceased to outweigh the side effects
My favorite snack is potato chips dipped in ketchup. However, there is one benefit to reduced salt - lower ringing in the ears. There is a direct connection to high salt and tinnitus.
I love salt.
I’ve never listened to them about salt, butter or milk.
Fie on them!
Don’t worry about the salt - drink a lot more water, though, and eat high potassium foods. And knock off the heavy carbs, get yer butt out for a walk on a regular basis, and remember to eat those green vegetable thingies.
For the adventurous, look up “kettlebell.”
The study you cite does not conclude anything so strong as the thread title/post claims. All it says is that nothing supports trying to get ridiculous salt restriction (which almost no one does) of 1500 mg daily in POPULATIONS.
People get too exited about anything counter-current, SEE, SEE TOLD YA SO, etc. Too many worry on one hand, but too many are idiots on the other hand.
Some who worry about salt don’t need to.
Lots of INDIVIDUALS get quite ill from eating too much salt. Eating one jar of pickles can put certain congestive heart failure patients or a kidney patients in the hospital ICU.
No one should be idiotic and over-do salt, especially if you are not healthy. Use some common sense.
That said, many people can follow their NORMAL taste and thirst and do not have to WORRY about salt.
“Conclusion
The committee’s report provides additional insight concerning the nation’s efforts to stem the health effects of high dietary sodium intake, based on newer types of studies focused directly on health outcomes. The new studies support current efforts to reduce excessive sodium intake in order to lower risk of heart disease and stroke. However, the evidence on health outcomes is not consistent with efforts that encourage lowering of dietary sodium in the general population to 1,500 mg/day. Further research may shed more light on the association between lower — 1,500 to 2,300 mg—levels of sodium and health outcomes.”
Salt, sugars, butter, eggs, Milk, red meat, collateral, small amount of second hand smoke... what else?
I like to make a list of non-controversial issues that even the most blind would go *dang* we are being manipulated.
Reason it is anatomically correct on what a blood sucking (this case salt sucking) monster could look like. Not like Alien were it would fall down under under it's own weight even in limited gravity conditions.
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