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Nothing & Everything => Open Discussion => Food and Naked Yodeling => Topic started by: Mike on June 06, 2012, 07:03:46 PM

Title: Opt-Ed article about salt
Post by: Mike on June 06, 2012, 07:03:46 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/we-only-think-we-know-the-truth-about-salt.html

TL;DR version:  The is very little evidence to support the "eat less salt" advice and recent studies indicate that reducing salt intake to the levels pushed by the government might actually kill you just as readily.

Title: Re: Opt-Ed article about salt
Post by: KnuckleBuckett on June 06, 2012, 08:09:22 PM

Quote from: Mike on June 06, 2012, 07:03:46 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/we-only-think-we-know-the-truth-about-salt.html

TL;DR version:  The is very little evidence to support the "eat less salt" advice and recent studies indicate that reducing salt intake to the levels pushed by the government might actually kill you just as readily.

I mention that around this area at the risk of a lynching.  Yokels.