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Controversy continues

Whether medical studies justify a population salt-reduction strategy continues to be controversial as proponents try to skate over the thin ice of the scientific literature. I forgot to mention in this post that the real comparison of salt-reduced DASH-Sodium trial is not to the "control" diet -- nobody's defending that -- but the the DASH Diet as it was originally tested -- without salt reduction.