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Doesn't that mean there is a causative effect, or are they saying it just a correlation? People with high blood pressure tend to eat more salt? Or if it is not statistically significant, why mention it at all?
The orignal study that caused the salt scare didn't claim that increased salt intake caused increased blood pressure. The claim was that a sodium intake on the high end of regular sodium intake was closely correlated with increased mortality rates in heart attack victims. There was no claim made about sodium intake and blood pressure, nor was there a claim about sodium intake and heart attack rates. This is why I hat…
The latest health scare is that sitting causes all kinds of trouble. Expect articles in 10 years saying it was all a lie.
[And in the of long-distance airplane flights, the whole deep-vein-thrombosis thing does actually seem to be a documented problem, if a pretty rare one...]
> those patients who were hypertensive consumed significantly more salt than those without hypertension Doesn't that mean there is a causative effect, or are they saying it just a correlation? People with high blood pressure tend to eat more salt? Or if it is not statistically significant, why mention it at all?
Unless causality is clearly articulated, it never should be assumed. Also, it never would be stated if there was not statistically significant data supporting it - keeping in mind this is a Time article and not the original source [0] so you're dependent on the writer knowing what they're talking about as well.
[0]: http://ajh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/09/03/ajh.h...
Does the headline square with "patients who were hypertensive consumed significantly more salt than those without hypertension"?
The state of nutrition science is pathetic. The science is conflicted over a simple question of fact -- whether or not a trivially measurable short-term effect occurs when you eat one of the most common food additives in the world. If we can't even answer THIS -- it seems like it should be incredibly easy to answer -- I don't see why people can claim anything at all about diets and macronutrients. Nutrition science n…
The latest health scare is that sitting causes all kinds of trouble. Expect articles in 10 years saying it was all a lie.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nutrition isn't exclusively (or even primarily) about weight loss. To say that all of the health effects from everything we consume are well known and settled is silly. edit: I shouldn't even say "health" effects; just systemic effects period. Not only is nutrition not exclusively about weight loss, it isn't even about self-improvement. Rather, it's about a basic understanding of the construction and functioning of t…
> Nutrition isn't exclusively (or even primarily) about weight loss. Maintaining a healthy weight is the primary health problem for the vast majority of people concerned about their personal nutrition.
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Nutrition isn't exclusively (or even primarily) about weight loss. To say that all of the health effects from everything we consume are well known and settled is silly. edit: I shouldn't even say "health" effects; just systemic effects period. Not only is nutrition not exclusively about weight loss, it isn't even about self-improvement. Rather, it's about a basic understanding of the construction and functioning of t…
> Nutrition isn't exclusively (or even primarily) about weight loss. Maintaining a healthy weight is the primary health problem for the vast majority of people concerned about their personal nutrition.