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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You missed the point.
The fact that all salt has it’s origins in ancients seas does not make your statement that “The extra that you pay for “Sea Salt” is just to pay for the label that says “Sea Salt” any less incorrect.
>>They aren’t extracting more calories than what’s there, it’s that the average person is extracting fewer calories than what’s there.<<
That could be part of it. Flora in the gut is destroyed by antibiotics. Different flora digest different nutrients. Some people’s bodies may be telling them to eat more, to get the proper nutrients into the bloodstream and to cells. The calories are stored as fat.
Also, if one is NOT getting those nutrients into the cells, the hypothalamus may be saying, “You’re starving!” so metabolism slows. It has been a very short time in the history of man that we have had an abundance of food. We were constantly in a feed/starve mode. Some bodies metabolized well to store more in preparation for lean times and cold. Eastern Europeans and Eskimos are examples.
The Genesis account is of the creation of the universe, for man, and Peter’s prophecy of the end calls for the entire universe to go up in smoke when man is done with it.
I’ll take God’s word for it; he said six days and then he rested.
I had to call my kids over to read you post.
We laughed until we cried but by 12-year-old said it was soooooo True!
>>It doesn’t make any difference where the calories come from.<<
CO2 causes the warming of the Earth.
My bet is that you are blaming the victm. Try a search on 'infectobesity'.
The study also reports that even when you stop 'hanging out' with obese people the tendency to stay obese stays with you.
One of the primary goals of genetics over the past decade has been to understand human health and disease in terms of differences in DNA from person to person. But even a relatively straightforward trait such as height has resisted attempts to reduce it to a particular combination of genes. In light of this shortcoming, some investigators see room for an increased focus on an alternative explanation for heritable traits: epigenetics, the molecular processes that control a gene.s potential to act. Evidence now suggests that epigenetics can lead to inherited forms of obesity and cancer.
Press release at http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/eu-ibd030110.php
CONCLUSIONS.Pathogen burden showed the strongest association with insulin resistance, especially with enteroviruses and C. pneumoniae seropositivity. We hypothesize that exposure to multiple pathogens could cause a chronic low-grade inflammation, resulting in insulin resistance.
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"Fried salt 'fatback' pork -- it's what's for breakfast!"
...at least in rural Texas when I was a kid - 3/4 century ago (and I - obviously -- survived it...)
The world changes. One thing I hang on to is that 'truth is truth, and truth will out'.
Stupidity eventually kills itself off. That you and I are so old says we aren't too stupid.
/johnny
I think the salt hysteria is way overblown. It’s an example of bad science run amok.
I’m trying to look up how much gets lost during digestion. I did find where, on average, approximately 23% of calories contained in protein are lost via excrement, but haven’t seen anything on other types yet. Still, that gives us a clue. If that’s the average, then some people must be better at extracting and absorbing those calories, and some must be worse.
It’s crucial that we eat the RIGHT kind of salt though. Do NOT eat table salt. It has been stripped of minerals and then they add in bleaching and anti caking agents. They are also adding a miniscule amount of iodine.
Get unrefined salt like Celtic or Real Salt.
Take a separate iodine supplement like Iodoral or Lugol’s. Those are really the only 2 worthy iodine supps to take.
Sea salt, Morton’s Salt.
There are plenty of things you can eat that can harm you, but there is nothing you can eat that will make you healthier than you already are.
I could have provided power for a small city that night. I’ll never know the suffering women endure in child-birth, but I like to think the aftermath of that Jalapeno dip has given me a brief glimpse.
Jalapenos with hemorrhoids. I have a hard time believing the pain lasts very long. I figure you would just black out from shock!
THAT SOUNDS EXCRUCIATING.
Join the sensitivity of roids with the firepower of the mighty Jalapeno. Why do I have visions of Medieval tortures and the Spanish Inquisition. This sounds like a good way to extract the location of a dirty bomb from an uncooperative terrorist. Induce roids and feed gallons of jalapeno dip. Instant cooperation. “I’ll talk, I’ll talk, just no more Jalapenos!!!!”
“The eons stop at about 6000 years anyway.”
Human existence dates back to the re-creation described in Genesis, about 6,000 years ago, mho. The universe, including the earth, I believe, is much older. There is Biblical support for that thinking, though this is not the thread for that kind of a discussion/argument.
God is infinitely bigger than our finite minds can comprehend.
“THAT SOUNDS EXCRUCIATING. Join the sensitivity of roids with the firepower of the mighty Jalapeno...”
Ah, but I am not a sore-ass :), I do not have the ‘roids’. And the mighty Jalapeno is rather mild as hot peppers go. There are some hot peppers used in Hunan dishes that are really hot. And then there is the Habenero...I was cleaning some one day and brushed my lip with my finger...it hurt for two days. And after the first time cleaning Habeneros, I learned to wear plastic gloves...they will burn the skin on your hands.
It’s not all about you. I used the collective we.
So, basically, you think that you speak for everyone?
Kind of like the royal “We?”
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I won’t even play with Habaneros. You can have them. That is way over my pleasure level.
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