Putting balance back in the sodium/hypertension debate
The latest issue of Food Technology, the foundation publication of the Institute of Food Technologists has an article in the Food, Medicine & Health section devoted to the issue of salt and hypertension. The knee-jerk response by certain regulatory agencies to very limited and inconclusive evidence is highlighted along with the dangers of developing policies based on the vocal opinions of a few commited anti-salt advocates. The authors, Clemens and Pressman, go out of their way to remind us that that hypertension is not a discrete disease nor is it a clinical end point, but rather a multifaceted risk factor steeped in myth-information and too-often passed off as a proxy for cardiovascular disease - a misleading representation.
More articles like this one, in widely circulated journals pointing will get rid of the hype and reduce the tension in the whole hypertention debate.
