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, wed be harming rather than helping ourselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
>> “And the mighty Jalapeno is rather mild as hot peppers go.” <<
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For sure!
I use habaneros to make my ‘cayenne’ tinctures. They are quite hot and there are places that you do not want to touch after handling them, but used in moderation they are delicious and quite edible.
Not the royal we, nor the royal me, the collective we in solidarity.
Solidarity of consuming junk water?
Knowingly?
No wonder Obama got elected.
>> “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.” <<
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That would depend on what you’ve been eating, and how much damage it has done to your health.
Eating the right diet is the only thing that can possibly make you healthier, or keep you healthy. No drug will ever improve your health, that’s for sure.
No, Obama got elected because so many people think as imprecisely as you and think what they think is the only way to think.
Get a life.
I have a life and I’m trying to offer one to you.
You’re working on a drugstore level of comprehension, and I’m trying to elevate that.
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Thanks, now I can start my collection of autographs of famous people.
Don’t forget your own which you will sign “I’ or “Me”
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Where did you get that data?
As I read it, the only large scale study of salt conducted in recent decades not only refutes everything you said, but shows it may cause the person following such a diet heart damage.
The information that I cite is from my own research for personal purposes, so I do not have citations at my finger tips.
Fad diet adherents have huge volumes of citations to support their respective positions. They are impossible for one person to counter.
Over the years, in order to remove saturated fat, poly-unsaturated fat, sodium and cholesterol from my diet, I have become a vegetarian and, finally a vegan. The biggest challenge for me sticking to a vegan diet has been learning how to select and prepare varied, interesting, flavorful and delicious vegan meals. It has taken me years to achieve this. Because of the rapid growth of advice on the Net, today's learning process would be much shorter.
My personal benefits have been lower LDL, higher HDL/LDL, lower systolic/diastolic, lower weight, ability to eat as much as I wish, and a great fit with exercise, making a close-to-ideal physique, and all the benefits thereof, much easier to attain.
If you have an interest in heading in that direction, PM me.
Thanks, your explanation is citation enough.
BTW, you do know that the low salt diet is, in fact, one of the latest fads in nutrition?
That was one of the points of the article, along with the facts on salt consumption for those who are concerned about heart disease.
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