What? Eating less salt DOESNT cut heart risks?

Every time you think you know something in nutrition … the rug gets pulled out from under you. Eggs, no eggs; margarine, no margarine; nuts, no nuts; and on and on. 


And now, this study insists that higher salt consumption doesn’t drive up your blood pressure! Even worse, the people in this study who had higher salt consumption had lower heart disease!!


Get this:

What are we supposed to make of this stunning reversal? 
Keep in mind the following principle: “one study does not a conclusion, make”. In other words, we really need to see it replicated. 


And that doesn’t mean that these data aren’t REAL, or valid, but only that the methods they used may make the results spurious. 


For example, they measured salt consumption indirectly … by urine output. Is that a good way to measure it? I’m not sure. They used Europeans, who typically eat far fewer processed food products than we do. Is their “high” salt consumption coming from their “Hardees Artery-Hardening Biscuits” or from more or less salt in the shaker on their real foods?  


In the end, we will see whether it is salt that causes the problem for us, or whether it is processed food products. Time will tell. 


Eating less salt doesn’t cut heart risks: study | Reuters