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.
If it weren't for bad science, we wouldn't have any science at all. :0\
And THAT article is based on this May 14th CDC scientific study. And that study appears to have been a compilation of results from other studies...
The true believers will not believe this and keep preaching the old way.
“If it weren’t for bad science, we wouldn’t have any science at all. :0\ “
I love it! I should send this to one of my sons, a hotshot scientist. ;-)
I am old enough to now be living through my THIRD complete cycle of “eggs and coffee are gonna kill you”.....”No, they’re not”......”uhhh, yes they are”......”No, they’re not”
I remember when tomahtoes were gonna kill you, but that was when they were vegetables, before they became fruits.
Yes, pretzels have been similarly ruined, and I now have to add salt to cans of nuts also.
ah... the homo agenda strikes again...
So, everybody goes back to using salt, then a little later, oh, no, salt is evil again and everybody should ban salt (Mayor Bloomberg for instance). Now, again, oops, we were wrong.
Can we just stop listening to these people. The last time we went thru something like this (I think is was the avian flu thingy), I ended up deciding that the Govt. and the media want to keep us hysterical. Because, then, we are looking to the Govt. to DO SOMETHING!
Yeah, I'm right there with you, age and all. Eggs, IMHO, are a perfect food. And, I believe sometime last year a study came out that had found that a certain enzyme in eggs (colene, cholene -- something like that) actually helped to mitigate the cholestoral in the egg. So, yes eggs have cholesteral; but, they also have the enzyme to help you deal with it -- voila! perfect food.
Clearly McDonalds, Frito Lay, Rold Gold and Morton Salt aren’t paying off the right people.
This illustrates a problem with EVERY form of singular top expert authorities on ANYTHING - making them the top offical experts does not make them right.
What we need is to reject the paradigm that accepts the creation of and authority given to “top official experts” of any kind.
We need “expert information” and dissemination of it, but single source, a single top offical source does not provide ALL the best expert information, it presents an official orthodoxy, that’s all.
Salt free diets administered to old people in nursing homes serves one purpose. The food is so tasteless that the quit eating and slowly starve. Mission accomplished.
I think we should take this study with a grain of salt...
the old rules of avoiding gluttony and all things in moderation accepted, have been good nutrional advice for ages
Depends on where you put the supplement.
CDC: We were wrong about salt and a bunch of other things too, but we’re not wrong about vaccines. Nope. Not at all. Especially that Gardisil vaccine. You need to inject your kids with Gardisil. By the way, if you feed those same kids raw milk we’ll have CPS take them away from you.
He eventually started to get episodes of very low blood pressure, so I asked his cardiologist about adding salt back into his diet; his answer, "Sure - of course".
Ditto with that coumadin racket, that keeps the blood labs in business. His got so out of whack that I asked the cardio about alternatives; his answer, "Quit the blood thinner and give him an 81 aspirin daily".
But none of them are salt related - although he's been putting an inch and a half on everything for decades.
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