Salt and obesity
Nothing in nutrition is more politically correct today than a preoccupying focus on the "obesity epidemic." Predictably, anti-salt zealots have chimed-in that one step towards eliminating overweight is to curtail salt consumption. Of course, salt is non-caloric, but few question lumping out-of-favor nutrients in the ukase to remove salt from the diet. The Salt Institute has just published the latest issue of its e-newsletter, Salt and Health, examining the question: "Is salt implicated in our obesity epidemic? " The article documents its conclusion that:
"... the evidence exhonerates salt and even assigns it a postive role in encouraging an increase in pursuit of healthy physical fitness. In the vast majority of cases, overweight and obesity result from energy input exceeding energy output."
Let's not take these scurrilous attacks lying down; exercise your opportunities to insist on sound science!
