Salt & Human Health
Human salt intake impacts general health, insulin sensitivity, blood pressure and hormone activity -- all with health consequences.
Archives
No health benefit for U.S. low-salt diets: 3rd study confirms
EuSalt nutrient intake data conference questions accuracy of dietary intake measurements
Tasty tomatoes, no matter how you say it
Should salt intake be regulated?
Harvard "Diet Tips" admits "considerable debate" on salt's role in blood pressure
Aldosterone II
Aldosterone I
Anticipating the unanticipated
Beware "scientific McCarthyism"
TV chef bullied
Regaining our balance
Be careful: reducing food intake compromises the immune system
No justification for dietary recommendations, water or salt
Another health outcomes study finds no benefit for salt reduction
Not worth refuting?
Is lower better? Don't "treat the numbers" regarding dietary salt
Kids’ salt craving is hard-wired
Unintended, ironic introspection by FSA
Button that cholera
Beyond the Nanny State
Think tank skims surface of salt and health issue
Medical Myth-Information
Taubes cholesteral primer applies equally to salt
Diabetes trial halted. Surprise, remorse. Why not discipline and humility?
Maybe you CAN'T fool Mother Nature
Salt appetite – a key to our survival
Institute of Medicine Daily Value for Sodium May be Insufficient to Prevent Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack)
Washington Post
discovers distinction between "risk factor" and "risk"
Having a gaffe at our expanse
Heart-healthy broccoli
On the Road to Finland
Do Dietary Guidelines Do More Harm Than Good?
Focus on the “real issue” – health outcomes
Health outcomes focus in
WSJ
blog discussion
Diet-disease relationships need “more-illuminating” biomarkers: IFT
Halotherapy at a “cave” near you
Will this tree make a sound?
Dogma CAN be changed
AMA starts 2008 with a misdirected campaign against CV "risk factors"
A salty confession
Eat your fruit and veggies -- further evidence
The Key to Improving Children’s Health
Politics at Johns Hopkins?
"Medical myths: Sometimes even doctors are duped"
Is it the food, or is it us?
Blood pressure risk versus heart attack risk
Senate drops Harkin's federal pre-emption of school snacks
Good (health) news you probably missed
New federal data confirms dietary sodium intake stable
Is "the new taste sensation" really a salt replacer?
Make up your own number; they did
Salt and SWET
SI challenges FDA to join in call for controlled trial of salt and health outcomes
Games people play
Epidemiology needs transparency
FDA consumer survey offers insights on low-salt foods, diets
Salt, Sodium and a Balanced Diet
Salt Scare Without Foundation
"Distinguishing Association from Causation:A Backgrounder for Journalists"
"'Global warming' as pathological science"
George Orwell would have been proud
Evidence Mounts Against a Salt and Cardiovascular Disease Link
Rotterdam Study authors find no health benefit for cutting salt and "borderline" additional risk
Controversy continues
Socialized science?
A tale of two books
"Informational cascades” undermine science in nutrition advice
FDA schedules public hearing on CSPI petition to revoke GRAS status for salt
Is "enhanced water" just hype, the latest "junk food" or are nutrient-fortified "functional beverages" the key to better health?
HRT: Model for dietary salt?
Health alarmists' "Plan C"
A breath of rational air
Salt and children's health
Salt adds years and zest to life
Nutrient Babeling
New research on hypertension may explain benefits of fruits and vegetables
Salt myopia
A Salty Red Herring
More than the sum of its parts
No Applause at the Finnish Line
UK anti-salt policy will likely become next "major public health disaster": McCarron
Freedom of Information will Strengthen Medical Research
Qualified health claims under assault
Hormone replacement therapy and low-salt diets
WHO "unaware of any evidence;" proposes remineralization anyway
A Gresham's Law effect of junk science?
Junkfoodscience unmasks claims of "evidence-based" research
Misdirecting efforts to cut cardiovascular risk hurts us all
Will politically-correct search engine censorship stifle medical science?
Medical evidence: why process counts in health policy decisions
American Heart Assn guidelines lambasted for poor science base
The cart and the horse
"Salt paranoia seems a little silly"
SI endorses strict food label health claims
Salt and health: an EuSalt Forum
Lift the hood, kick the tires
DASH it all
Out of the Mouths of Babes
Simple questions, honest observations
Focus on dietary patterns, not nutrients
WHO fails to use quality evidence in recommendations
“Estimate” of health savings a “house of cards”
Quality of Mediterranean Diet trumps its high salt content
Heart disease risk factors reconsidered
Britain's top nutritionist warns of too-low sodium
15th salt reduction health outcomes study muddies water
Backlash UK:
Panic Nation
The Latest FSA Campaign is "Full of It!"
Mixing it up on the blogosphere
Good and bad medical information
"What should you believe about salt?"
Latest salt and health outcomes study: no benefit of low-salt (again)
High-salt Japanese diet not related to cardiovascular mortality
Diet and the Burden of Disease
The Bitter Truth about Vegetables
Britons reject FSA anti-salt campaign
Tempest in a coffee cup
Scare Science: When facts don't matter
Sometimes it feels like throwing starfish back in the ocean
Alderman ISH presidential address "Salt, Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Disease" video online
Grandma was right: forego "nutritionism" for good food
Salt and obesity
Global obesity and Iraqi stability
Consequences of low or high salt diets queried
"Death to the industry conspiracy theories!"
"Death to the industry conspiracy theories!"
Revenge can be salty
A Needless Waste of Life
Should governments monopolize nutrition labels?
Socialism in medical research
Challenging the subtle distortions of our salt and health promotion
Holiday cheer
Pour salt on it
Laragh hands off to Alderman at
American Journal of Hypertension
"Salt OK for Health"
"Addictive" (?) Foods
Extremism in the defense
"When Blind Faith in a Medical Fix is Broken"
Tunnel vision
And Now For Something Completely Different...
WebMD: stick to weight loss
"Try not to kill anyone"
Chronic fatigue syndrome largely undiagnosed
"Lawsuit lounge" threatens to sue over diet, obesity
"Salt murderess" not guilty
Salt and (fill in the blank)
Alliance for a Healthier Generation scraps salt disqualification
Reduce high blood pressure with high salt intake
BackWASH (or was that backlash?)
The Salt Conspiracy?
"The Salt Conspiracy"
CASH metastasizes into WASH
When to wait
"Good food/bad food" winning out over "good diet/bad diet"
Extrapolations? Or data?
Health outcomes:blood pressure = war on terrorism:war in Iraq
As summer winds down, hyponatremia costs put at $1.6 billion to $3.6 billion
New Harris Poll shows sodium slipping in consumer concern
How about a low-mango diet?
Salt and exercise
Salt Institute calls for balance in ChiTrib story
Salt chambers help asthmatics
AMA not worth its salt: editorial
Good advice, not just for Ironmen
Full (and fair) disclosure
AMA mistaken on salt science
SI newsletter becomes foodprocessing.com white paper
Salt Institute files comments on draft Canadian
Food Guide
Salt debate leaves bitter taste
Salt OK for health
Salt Institute justifiably asks "Where's the outrage?"
Salt those veggies!
Radio Interview with author of study showing low-salt diet risks
Audio interview: low-salt diets produce 37% more deaths
Salt's controversial role in health
Search
Search this blog:
Categories
Archives
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
March 2006
February 2006
Recent Posts
No health benefit for U.S. low-salt diets: 3rd study confirms
EuSalt nutrient intake data conference questions accuracy of dietary intake measurements
Tasty tomatoes, no matter how you say it
Should salt intake be regulated?
Harvard "Diet Tips" admits "considerable debate" on salt's role in blood pressure
Aldosterone II
Aldosterone I
Anticipating the unanticipated
Beware "scientific McCarthyism"
TV chef bullied
Subscribe to this blog's feed
[
What is this?
]
Powered by
Movable Type 3.2