Posted on 06/03/2012 7:37:05 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
THE first time I questioned the conventional wisdom on the nature of a healthy diet, I was in my salad days, almost 40 years ago, and the subject was salt. Researchers were claiming that salt supplementation was unnecessary after strenuous exercise, and this advice was being passed on by health reporters.
When I spent the better part of a year researching the state of the salt science back in 1998 — already a quarter century into the eat-less-salt recommendations — journal editors and public health administrators were still remarkably candid in their assessment of how flimsy the evidence was implicating salt as the cause of hypertension.
“You can say without any shadow of a doubt,” as I was told then by Drummond Rennie, an editor for The Journal of the American Medical Association, that the authorities pushing the eat-less-salt message had “made a commitment to salt education that goes way beyond the scientific facts.”
While, back then, the evidence merely failed to demonstrate that salt was harmful, the evidence from studies published over the past two years actually suggests that restricting how much salt we eat can increase our likelihood of dying prematurely. Put simply, the possibility has been raised that if we were to eat as little salt as the U.S.D.A. and the C.D.C. recommend, we’d be harming rather than helping ourselves.
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LOL! I hear ya! Been there done that! My dad called that condition “Mexican heartburn”. I don’t eat anything spicy anymore because that is what happens. :D
I would refine that to say that in theory MAN can survive without beer in rare documented cases, while most men can’t. But I find the female of the species to be a wine-based terrestrial organism, while man is beer-based matter. Many a woman can’t survive without her wine.
Save yourself, don’t eat carrots. Everyone who has died of health problems has eaten a carrot at least once in their lifetime. Be warned.
Let’s just say I use moderation. No diving into the bowl anymore. But I have to admit, it suuure was good. I mean, it was flaming delicious Jalapeno dip. Really good. And I paid for it dearly with my Mexican heartburn.
“Silicone dioxide is mixed in with the salt. This tears up the insides of your arteries and they start bleeding.”
Care to provide documentation for this? Sand is silicone dioxide...how does it get into the arteries from the stomach or intestines?
I didn’t know that. I take Metoprolol and Lisinopril, and the blood pressure is good. Potassium doesn’t have any side affects that I’ve noticed.
“My dad called that condition “Mexican heartburn”. I don’t eat anything spicy anymore because that is what happens.”
This problem is exagerated if a person has hemorrhoids. I have sometimes eaten whole jalapenos out of the garden, hot ones, and normally do not have this problem.
SSKI is the enemy of Hashimoto!
And it is easy to use.
>> “ My God, says EVERYTHING in moderation” <<
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Scripture reference please.
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Salt used to be in rather limited supply.
If you sat above or below the salt at table was an indication of status.
Was someone “worth their salt”?
Salt is an essential nutrient. When you are low on salt you will notice that a salty food is suddenly the most delicious thing you have ever eaten.
So much like caloric intake - we went from a society where it was essential to take in as much as was possible to one in which it was cheap plentiful and abundant - and limiting its intake might be necessary.
That's from my old Prinivil/lisinopril advice to patient, and I was cautioned by my doc about that. If it doesn't show up soon after starting lisinopril, "you're probably okay" on a longterm basis. I think.
At 23, doctors think Lizzie Velasquez has a form of the rare neonatal progeroid syndrome, which accelerates her aging and makes it almost impossible to gain weight. Blind in one eye, indeed, she does have to eat between 5,000 and 8,000 calories a day, and has never been more than 62 pounds, according to reports.
People survived Death Camps because they were able to survive on minimal calories. That’s it plain and simple.
Salt used to be in rather limited supply.
If you sat above or below the salt at table was an indication of status.
Was someone “worth their salt”?
If I'm not mistaken, the only difference between various types of salt is the crystal size.
If it's labelled "sea salt" or "kosher salt", the crystal size is slightly larger than regular salt. The larger crystal size also requires a slight difference in recipe measurements -- since a tsp of larger crystals results in a smaller net weight of salt.
But all salt is simple NaCl -- nothing mnore, nothing less.
>>absorbing more calories that the food contains (impossible.)<<
It’s not a matter of absorbing more calories.
It’s a matter of HOW many calories a body can metabolize, how much is stored and how many each body needs.
To use a simple “calorie in/calorie out” method to determine how much weight a person gains or loses is silly. I worked with Anorexic and Bulimic patients. The amount of calories these people needed to maintain body weight would startle you. And we are talking forever, not this week, not six months.
Along with that, the horrendous junk science that has been accepted as fact (just like global warming) has taken a society of less active people and thrown them into metabolic syndrome like never before. AND add in the corn sugars to so many of the foods that one would not even suspect and we have been snowed.
Very few people can just reduce their food intake and lose a large amount of weight. (10 pounds, 20 pounds maybe) Their bodies will go into starvation mode and store energy or feed off their own muscle. Most must eat more, eat smarter and exercise it off. Exercise builds brown fat that burns calories more efficiently and longer.
I have high cholesterol too. Higher than yours. I have had it for decades, no matter what my weight is.
Yet my blood pressure is perfect and I have clear arteries, no plaque detected. So I give up worrying about it.
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