Mmmm, salt.
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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smoke’em if you got’em
I have low blood pressure for no good reason other than I inherited it from my dad.
I have salt in my diet - although I don’t have a habit of shaking it on my food.
Even when I packed on the pounds during my pregnancies...low blood pressure.
If I stand up too quickly in the morning I see stars.
And if you choose to go without beer, I'll gladly report on the results of that, unless it gets too ugly.
/johnny
I have to have salt, or I cramp up into a ball. To help counter all the salt I eat, I take potassium.
My sis has the same disorder, she discovered it on the internet after the doctor blamed her for being a pill popper. She knew something was wrong with her. and her research paid off.
>>if you are an average person.<<
Let me tell you, when you work in medicine and see how different chemicals effect each body differently, you’ll wake up.
I’ve seen patients take steroids and gain weight without reduction in activity or increase in calories.
Come on into 2012, you’re stuck in 1970.
Di-dah-dit. Firing up. And the tobacco in the garden is doing well.
/johnny
>>My edconologist said there is an absolute corollary with the increase of thyroid issues and the reduction of iodized salt.<<
That makes sense.
When doctors say to cut back on salt, the first thing anyone gets rid of is the salt shaker with the added iodine.
A few unfortunate folks can keep the blubber on with a calorie regimen that would slim most people way down. They genuinely do have slower metabolism. This is the crowd that has resorted to such things as stomach stapling and lap bands. On the other extreme some have a lot of a special fat that burns calories as heat, an adaptation that has worked well for Eskimo peoples. But the “mushy middle” is generally too well wined and dined.
I do prefer my butter without salt, and my salt without iodine.
I'll add my own salt, thankyouverymuch.
/johnny
Mmmm, salt.
Mermaids.....I can believe.
Sea serpents.....I can believe.
But rational liberals? NO WAY they exist.
LOL Di-Da-Dit-dit.. and that all I remember
The easiest way I have found to lose weight... is to eat dinner much earlier than usual (3-4) and wait as long as possible to eat breakfast (10-11). There’s just not enough hours left to over eat then (especially if you drink a large glass of water before eating) And if you have a problem with wanting to snack late at night... just go to bed early.
If you do all that, you can pretty much eat whatever you want and you’ll lose weight.
My opinion is that the recommendations for low salt intake amount to a deprivation diet. The body regulates salt, but to what level? If it’s not low enough, the only recourse is, as I say, deprivation. Well, maybe elevated salt intake breaks down the regulatory mechanism. I don’t know. But I don’t think anybody knows. This certainly isn’t what they say. They just say salt is bad for you.
/johnny
One thing that became popular on the health diet circut was pasta. Meatless was said to be better for you. Pasta has it’s place but too many carbs is not good.
I really think people have gotten fat because they don’t have adults with the time and energy to plan, shop, and cook meals at home anymore. Cooking is a forgotten art in some families.
Or, the greasy salty food wasn't the problem.
That is an email address. ???
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