Salt is Safe?
Posted On June 6, 2008
Incredible. Data from this research study, shows that salt may not be as bad as we thought … for high blood pressure and its ultimate effect as a contributor to heart attacks.
The study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine says that people who eat the least salt suffer from the highest rates of death from cardiac disease.
“Our findings suggest that one cannot simply assume, without evidence, that lower salt diets ‘can’t hurt,‘ ” stated lead author Hillel Cohen said.
Cohen and his colleagues looked at a federal health survey of about 8,700 Americans between 1988 and 1994. Even after they accounted for other cardiac risk factors like smoking and diabetes, the 25 percent of the population who ate the least salt were 80 percent more likely to die of cardiac disease than the 25 percent who ate the most salt.
What are we to make of this incredible reversal? That all we “know” may be unknown at any point? Maybe not, but at the very least we should take each new dose of the latest greatest findings with a grain of salt.
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Salt is Safe?
Incredible. Data from this research study, shows that salt may not be as bad as we thought … for high blood pressure and its ultimate effect as a contributor to heart attacks.
The study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine says that people who eat the least salt suffer from the highest rates of death from cardiac disease.
“Our findings suggest that one cannot simply assume, without evidence, that lower salt diets ‘can’t hurt,‘ ” stated lead author Hillel Cohen said.
Cohen and his colleagues looked at a federal health survey of about 8,700 Americans between 1988 and 1994. Even after they accounted for other cardiac risk factors like smoking and diabetes, the 25 percent of the population who ate the least salt were 80 percent more likely to die of cardiac disease than the 25 percent who ate the most salt.
What are we to make of this incredible reversal? That all we “know” may be unknown at any point? Maybe not, but at the very least we should take each new dose of the latest greatest findings with a grain of salt.
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