Eat your salt
#1
Posted 14 April 2007 - 09:51 AM
* This observational study found significant associations of lower sodium with increased cardiovascular disease mortality.
* No subgroup observed to experience benefit from lower sodium diet.
* These data suggest the safety and effectiveness of lower dietary sodium merit further study.
Since our blood has about the same saltiness as seawater, the claim that our bodies cannot handle salt safely is absurd. We are in fact very good at it. Salt has been implicated in raised blood pressure but if that were really a concern, a much more constructive approach would be to add potassium (which lowers blood pressure) to food rather than removing salt. Both are natural food components.
However, the decision to adopt a low sodium diet should be made with awareness that there is no evidence that this approach to blood pressure reduction is either safe, in terms of ultimate health impact, or that it is as effective in producing cardioprotection as has been proven for some drug therapies.
http://www.abc.net.a...es/s1590896.htm
http://hyper.ahajour...t/full/36/5/890
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#2
Posted 14 April 2007 - 10:46 AM
Edited by calmcookie, 14 April 2007 - 10:50 AM.
#3
Posted 24 April 2007 - 01:54 PM
They call it a "sodium" deficiency below to pull the wool over your eyes. But it is ordinary table salt they are talking about -- the stuff that has recently been heavily (and fraudulently) demonized.
'A man who died after completing the hottest London Marathon was named last night as a 22-year-old fitness instructor.
David Rogers became the ninth person to die in the race’s 27-year history after suffering from hyponatraemia, where high water intake results in a sodium deficiency.
Mr Rogers, of Milton Keynes, was one of 70 runners taken to hospital in sweltering temperatures. Running his first marathon, he collapsed after completing the race in 3 hours and 50 minutes. '
http://www.timesonli...icle1695634.ece
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#4
Posted 24 April 2007 - 02:08 PM
#5
Posted 25 April 2007 - 07:53 AM
#6
Posted 25 April 2007 - 08:10 AM
* Dietary guidelines recommend sodium restriction despite absence of clinical trial data.
* This observational study found significant associations of lower sodium with increased cardiovascular disease mortality.
* No subgroup observed to experience benefit from lower sodium diet.
* These data suggest the safety and effectiveness of lower dietary sodium merit further study.
Stocks, you are quoting from an article last year by Cohen, et. al, in the Green Journal (American Journal of Medicine) that used 24 hour "recall of salt intake" as its primary methodology. In addition, the same article mis spoke regarding salt's affect on the renin-angiotnsin system. Salt excretion in the urine is the only way to measure salt intake variables. His article was widely blasted by leaders in the field of salt research.
In fact, the totality of evidence for reducing salt intake, including epidemiologic, intervention, migration, treatment, animal and genetic studies is now stronger than for ANY other dietary or lifestyle intervention. Any. (that includes fats, smoking, weight loss, etc.).
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#7
Posted 25 April 2007 - 09:30 AM
In fact, the totality of evidence for reducing salt intake, including epidemiologic, intervention, migration, treatment, animal and genetic studies is now stronger than for ANY other dietary or lifestyle intervention. Any. (that includes fats, smoking, weight loss, etc.).
MM,
Thanks for your expert reply.
You seem to be missing a word in your sentence above ..."totality of evidence for reducing salt intake, is now stronger... " Stronger for what? longevity?? blood pressure reduction??
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#8
Posted 25 April 2007 - 09:46 AM
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Posted 25 April 2007 - 02:34 PM
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#10
Posted 08 May 2011 - 02:06 PM
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (May 4), reports that among 3,681 study subjects followed for as long as 23 years, the cardiovascular death rate was more than 50 percent higher among those on who consumed less salt.
The researchers concluded that their findings, “refute the estimates of computer model of lives saved and health care costs reduced with lower salt intake” and they do not support “the current recommendations of a generalized and indiscriminate reduction in salt intake at the population level.”
The new JAMA study didn’t break any ground with its finding. In fact, a host of studies published since 1995 fail to show any improved health outcomes for broad populations on reduced salt diets.
While the new study authors rightly acknowledge that “[our current findings] do not negate the blood-pressure lowering effects of a dietary salt reduction in hypertensive patients,” only a small portion of the population has that pathological condition.
Given that there is no scientific evidence showing dietary salt by itself to cause hypertension, as opposed to simply contributing to the condition once it already exists in individuals, a population-wide recommendation to reduce salt intake is simply not warranted.
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