So, for over half my adult life, the scientific consensus about salt was that it is bad in any form. Low salt, no salt, salt is poison and so forth.
A couple of weeks ago, the CDC comes out and says “oops!” salt ISN’T bad and “don’t worry bout it!”
Red meat, white meat, eggs, milk, even fricking water, burnt meat, raw meat, lean/fat meat are/were/now not bad for you.
If you live long enough, you’ll see these so-called scientists end up retracting and amending prior invocations. The worst offenders are the CDC.
It is all political or it is self-serving designed to garner funding for their impartial “studies”....
You speak the truth,and I agree with you . Isn’t it fascinating-not to mention contradictory- that ‘natural’ is always better EXCEPT when it comes to sugar? Then, chemical sweeteners produced in labs are better! Sugar is natural and 1000 times better for you than what a lab cooks up. After all, how can lawyers make money suing for using sugar?Artifical sweeteners and chemicals will be the next source of ‘call me’ commercials by attorneys.
If ‘natural’ is always good, how can sugar be bad?
Actually, I think this "salt" go-around is the second one that I have experienced (I will be 59 at the end of the month of August). When hubby and I first married he was on a low-salt regimen because of his blood pressure and the doctor said he should cut salt. So, at that time, there were no "salt free" or "low salt" alternatives, so I was making my own broth and using Pritikin as a guideline. I gained weight and his blood pressure never got better via diet. Eventually, people who were doing scientific studies got the results and, guess what, salt not a cause of high blood pressure.
Couple of years go by, and the "salt is evil" people are back and pushing the no salt/low salt thing. People do studies, AGAIN, and, as you say, oops, salt isn't bad for you. In fact, low salt intake could be a problem. Now, if you think about it, why would our bodies not like salt since the water in our bodies is salty? Aren't our tears salty? Doesn't that mean we have salt, naturally, in our bodies?
Anyway, my point is that if you live long enough you see this kind of stuff being pushed over and over again. It has nothing to do with health, and everything to do with controlling our behavior. I have simply stopped listening.
So, for over half my adult life, the scientific consensus about salt was that it is bad in any form. Low salt, no salt, salt is poison and so forth.
If salt were that bad for you, all the people from asia would have died out long ago, I swear it seems they drink more soy sauce than water....
AMEN!
Preach it, Brother!
There's no money in telling people "Moderation in all things is the best course."
The best thing to do is to refrain from food, water and air