Eat LESS Salt - and Die?
The official health wisdom--the wisdom everybody knows is right (because all the top health officials repeat it over and over again)--is that if you "restrict" the salt in your diet, you'll live longer.
That's because (once again, according to those official pronouncements) your blood pressure will be lower, putting you at less risk for a heart attack or stroke, the #1 and #3 causes of death in the U.S.
There's only one problem with that widespread "health wisdom," as I've been telling my patients and readers for many years. It's not true! And a recent article in the May 4, 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is the latest evidence to run counter to the medical (and mistaken) myth of "Low Salt Good, High Salt Bad."