CDC & P: Salt just fine. Decades of disinformation debunked. by AURaptor

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CDC & P: Salt just fine. Decades of disinformation debunked.

POSTED BY: AURAPTOR
UPDATED: Friday, July 12, 2013 07:23
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Thursday, July 11, 2013 7:38 AM

America loves a winner!

Ooops!

No benefit in reducing salt intake.

What else are we bring misinformed about by " The authorities " ?

http://healthimpactnews.com/2013/salt-reduction-recommendations-wrong-
cdc-study/

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Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:27 AM

M52NICKERSON

DALEK!

I would put much more stock in this if I could find a link to the studies.

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:54 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Salt is one of the most important nutrients, yet modern medicine has been demonizing it for decades. Now, though, even the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) must admit that they’ve had it wrong. They commissioned a study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the results are clear: Reducing salt intake is almost always a bad idea. The IOM’s report states:

The committee found no evidence for benefit and some evidence suggesting risk of adverse health outcomes associated with sodium intake levels in ranges approximately 1,500 to 2,300 mg/day among those with diabetes, kidney disease, or CVD. Further, the evidence on both the benefit and harm is not strong enough to indicate that these subgroups should be treated differently than the general U.S. population.[1]

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:02 PM

OONJERAH

I agree in principle of what I was taught about nutrition.* I have
Long thought they were lying to us about salt -- for one thing.

It makes sense to have the kids & worker bee adults be healthy.
But for the old, retired & disabled, I'm a conspiracy theorist,
based almost entirely on the care I've received or been offered
during the last 10 years. I no longer go to the Dr.

Big Pharm & Big Med want us to be chronically ill, but not quite
dead. Keep us comin' back for the next pill or procedure.

American Medicine is a racket.

*The average person needs 1 mg of Salt for every 5 mgs of Potassium.
Minerals in nutrition have proportionate balances.

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A man's gotta know how to take care of himself.

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Thursday, July 11, 2013 3:10 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

The committee found no evidence for benefit and some evidence suggesting risk of adverse health outcomes associated with sodium intake levels in ranges approximately 1,500 to 2,300 mg/day among those with diabetes, kidney disease, or CVD.

The health risk from salt (or sodium) is related to high blood pressure, not to diabetes, kidney disease, or CVD, although high blood pressure is a contributing factor to those conditions.

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Friday, July 12, 2013 7:23 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

OF COURSE. Been saying that for years. Just wait till they get to debunking the rest of the ag-industry-promoted diet.

I throw any dietary (and other health-related) advice against a single test: How closely does it match the circumstances under which we evolved? If it doesn't match, it's prolly not good advice.

Humans most likely evolved at the seashore. There is plenty of biochemical and physical evidence to support the hypothesis, but focusing JUST ON FOOD

The largest micronutrient deficiencies in the world today are vitamins A and D, and iodine. All are found in abundance at the seashore, and people living within a hundred miles or so of the ocean are well-protected, but inland populations of humans suffer greatly from goiter and cretinism (lack of iodine), rickets (lack of vitamin D) and blindness (lack of vitamin A). Animals which are adapted to living away from sources of iodine etc have very good conserving mechanisms, but clearly WE are not adapted to inland life.

In fact, goiter, hypothyroidism, and cretism were so common, even in Europe (Alps, northern Italy, parts of Britain) that Medieval paintings often show women (who suffer from in particular from lack of iodine due to the rigors of pregnancy) with receding hairlines, slanted-looking eyes, and bulges in the front base of the neck (look for a crease where the neck and the chest meet).

There is also plenty of written material from both Europe and China attesting to the presence of goiter; in fact, there was one comment written about a man visiting Tyrol in about 1400- he would have been handsome, but he lacked the goiter that everyone else had!

Also, the human brain needs an extraordinary amount of omega-3 (fish) oil for normal development compared to other primates. I could go on and on with about 20 other pieces of evidence along those lines, but I won't.

Humans are also "obligate omnivores", as Rue used to like to point out. We CANNOT do without B12, which is obtained only from animals. We also can't do without vitamin C, which is obtained from plants (fruit specifically).

So we prolly evolved on an equatorial seashore or estuary, eating small fish, frogs, clams, crabs, mussels, bird eggs, snails, tree fruits and groundberries when we could find them, roots that we could dig up, seaweed and green shoots when we were desperate. Mostly liberally dosed with salt.

Nowhere in there will you find, grains, or high-fructose corn syrup, or even honey. As we moved inland, we transitioned from bashing shells with rocks to bashing bones with rocks to extract the marrow. Even later, we turned to hunting. Farming was much later in the game... only 10,000 years ago or so. You can live on it, but it's not what we evolved on.

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