Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
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Re: Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
#12Salt in itself may not be bad. But salt makes food taste better, which tends to make people eat more, which causes people to gain weight. And being overweight brings with it health issues. It's the second order effects that you need to be aware of when asking if something is "good" or "bad".
Excellent point. In addition to my reply to blattimwind (1), this is a very significant reason to be suspicious of pro-salt research/advertizing.
Re: Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
#13Salt in itself may not be bad. But salt makes food taste better, which tends to make people eat more, which causes people to gain weight. And being overweight brings with it health issues. It's the second order effects that you need to be aware of when asking if something is "good" or "bad".
This is some ass backwards reasoning. And life’s too short to eat bad tasting food on purpose.
Re: Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
#14Hasn't that been known for a long time. The strong anti-Salt attitude was scientifically challenged for a long time but the knowledge is very slow to spread.
We have known that salt is a vital part of the diet since pre-history. The problem is the modern diet, (Western, Eastern, or other) is rich in rich foods, and essentially all land animals evolved to favor salt, by taste rewards, geography, or whatever other genetic conditioning. Salt was scarce. Now it's not. And the access to salt induces direct salt consumption, which can be lethal to a brittle hypertensive, but also encourages more food consumption in general because it makes almost any food more delicious.
Re: Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
#15Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xtnH0fxDUg
And then people wonder why anti-science is a thing today.
I basically stopped reading "science says that X is good/bad for your health" articles. At most I get entertaining value from them.
Re: Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
#16And to play devil's advocate, the opposite findings from just this June
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180622012101.h...
Re: Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
#17As with almost everything else moderation is key. Some salt is good, too much is bad. The question is where you are on that scale.
Re: Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
#18Nutrition "science" caught again perpetuating findings based in assumption and hitting the data until it fits, not solid research? Oh no, nobody could've expected that... also "scientists who are on a crusade to reduce our salt consumption to near zero". Like pope Urban II always said, no better place to do sound research than on a crusade.
Salt increases intravascular osmolarity, which increases water retention to correct the osmolarity. This is freshman inorganic chemistry. There's plenty of biomedical science behind renal pathophysiology and the link between salt and blood pressure is as close to an if-then statement as there is in medicine. We use all sorts of drugs and methods to play with this central mechanism and can observe the effects in real…
Yeah, a lot of people have no idea about this "homeostasis" thing, which is how you get to stupid things like "foods matched to your blood type" or "alkaline diet"
Re: Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
#19And to play devil's advocate, the opposite findings from just this June https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180622012101.h...
Dang, I was about to buy a block of salt to lick for dessert :'(