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Tasty tomatoes, no matter how you say it
Should salt intake be regulated?
Iodine Fortification of Foods
Let's look at the numbers!
Harvard "Diet Tips" admits "considerable debate" on salt's role in blood pressure
Aldosterone II
Aldosterone I
Anticipating the unanticipated
Beware "scientific McCarthyism"
Halotherapy gets a national media splash
Call for Papers: 9th International Symposium on Salt -- Beijing, September 4-7, 2009
TV chef bullied
Salt Institute included in "a dozen or so of the top minds from across the field of business-related associations"
Unbalancing the scales of scientific objectivity
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
New Zealand food fight
Kids’ salt craving is hard-wired
Unintended, ironic introspection by FSA
Climate change to impact transportation, salt usage
Traffic safety AND mobility: dual imperatives, not trade-offs
Further notice for BizCentral.org highlights Salt Institute
Focus transportation funding on priority projects
Salt Institute, industry associations launch BizCentral.org
Signaling the end of China's snowstorm emergency
Button that cholera
Beyond the Nanny State
Think tank skims surface of salt and health issue
Medical Myth-Information
Homeowners: anti-ice your sidewalks!
Salt supplies Winter Maintenance podcast
Chinese snow costs climb to more than $15 billion
Taubes cholesteral primer applies equally to salt
Diabetes trial halted. Surprise, remorse. Why not discipline and humility?
Maybe you CAN'T fool Mother Nature
A slip of the lip for Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
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
E-Crete is on the Way
On the Road to Finland
Do Dietary Guidelines Do More Harm Than Good?
Global warming in China. Not. $3 billion loss in January snows.
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
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
Food Labeling: Revision of Reference values and Mandatory Nutrients
Make up your own number; they did
SI challenges FDA to join in call for controlled trial of salt and health outcomes
Games people play
Happy Thanksgiving! 1.8 million websites offer tips on brining your turkey
Epidemiology needs transparency
Salt, Sodium and a Balanced Diet
Salt Scare Without Foundation
"Distinguishing Association from Causation: A Backgrounder for Journalists"
"'Global warming' as pathological science"
Living in Cranberry doesn’t mean you’re “bogged” down
Evidence Mounts Against a Salt and Cardiovascular Disease Link
Rotterdam Study authors find no health benefit for cutting salt and "borderline" additional risk
Socialized science?
A tale of two books
"Informational cascades” undermine science in nutrition advice
The perfect culinary hybrid
The Saline Turbine – A Look to the Future of Clean Salt Energy
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
"Salt revolution: hip or hype?"
No Aqueous Humor
New research on hypertension may explain benefits of fruits and vegetables
Salt myopia
A Salty Red Herring
Beefing up production
"Toxic trains" and terrorism
More than the sum of its parts
Quality science: an election issue?
No Applause at the Finnish Line
Freedom of Information will Strengthen Medical Research
Qualified health claims under assault
Hormone replacement therapy and low-salt diets
A Gresham's Law effect of junk science?
Junkfoodscience unmasks claims of "evidence-based" research
Global warming?
A poet's salt window into human nature
Thirsty for some salty culture?
Iodine supplementation for pregnancy and lactation
Misdirecting efforts to cut cardiovascular risk hurts us all
Of spotted owls and snail darters
Will politically-correct search engine censorship stifle medical science?
Medical evidence: why process counts in health policy decisions
Flll your gas tank . . . with saltwater(?)
Chlorine transport security in the news (again)
American Heart Assn guidelines lambasted for poor science base
The cart and the horse
"Salt paranoia seems a little silly"
The Peace Chlor II
Thyroid doctors clash over iodine nutrition for expectant mothers
The Peace Chlor
Of Currents and Corning
A Solute to Desalination
Salt and health: an EuSalt Forum
Lift the hood, kick the tires
DASH it all
Out of the Mouths of Babes
World Health Assembly applies pressure to promote iodized salt
Rational materials selection
Simple questions, honest observations
Saline Bush
Focus on dietary patterns, not nutrients
Wooley Wonder
Practice makes perfect
WHO fails to use quality evidence in recommendations
Quality of Mediterranean Diet trumps its high salt content
Needed: convenient truths
"21 solutions to save the world" includes iodizing salt
Heart disease risk factors reconsidered
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
Understanding health study headlines
Good and bad medical information
Global progress against iodine deficiency slowing: UNICEF
"What should you believe about salt?"
Latest salt and health outcomes study: no benefit of low-salt (again)
Manufacturing still key to US economic strength
A Traumendous Benefit
High-salt Japanese diet not related to cardiovascular mortality
World Salt Production
Diet and the Burden of Disease
The Bitter Truth about Vegetables
Britons reject FSA anti-salt campaign
Tempest in a coffee cup
Beauty and the beast (of winter)
High Pressure Economics
Scare Science: When facts don't matter
Don't surrender to winter!
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!"
Iodizing salt overlooked in BMJ list of medical milestones
Revenge can be salty
Slip Sliding Away in Portland, Oregon
A Needless Waste of Life
No foolin' -- Winter's (finally) here!
Should governments monopolize nutrition labels?
2006 Metal & Nonmetal Fatal Accident Review
Socialism in medical research
Winter maintenance by the numbers
Challenging the subtle distortions of our salt and health promotion
Deicing Chemicals and Pavement Concrete Deterioration
Anodes and Endoscopes
Ironing Out Resin Fouling
Salt's pedigree
Government vs. Science
Curl up with a good book
Holiday cheer
Purple salt?
CT switches from sand to salt to save environment
Still playing games with the evidence
Raising the World's I.Q.
Pour salt on it
Laragh hands off to Alderman at American Journal of Hypertension
Crystals in Concert
CaCl over-application produces slickness, crashes
A pinch of salt
"Addictive" (?) Foods
Extremism in the defense
No need for "wild fix"?
"Profits and Cherry Pie on Thanksgiving"
Wild fix: salt the sea
The first battle of Saltville
"When Blind Faith in a Medical Fix is Broken"
The perfect Christmas gift
A Dome is a Dome?
Tunnel vision
No man is an island
Election week
"Try not to kill anyone"
"Lawsuit lounge" threatens to sue over diet, obesity
Salt and (fill in the blank)
NIH scientists to quit rather than follow ethics rules
NIH-funded researcher begins jail term
"Big Salt" flexes its muscles again!
Unconscious food choices
Least painful tax hike
The Skeptical Environmentalist. Bjørn Lomborg, move over
"Big Salt"?
The Salt Conspiracy?
"The Salt Conspiracy"
CASH metastasizes into WASH
When to wait
"Good food/bad food" winning out over "good diet/bad diet"
Putting balance back in the sodium/hypertension debate
Health outcomes:blood pressure = war on terrorism:war in Iraq
Pass the white stuff!
Oxford wants to join Iran’s salt men study
14,001st use of salt
Americans ignorant of nutrient deficiency imperiling fetal brain development
Salt Institute endorses efficient, expert drinking water source protection
Cargill Cleveland mine garners positive PR
Salt and exercise
Congress probing NIH conflicts-of-interest
Concern for bias deepens -- but fails to widen
We are what we eat, part umpteen
Science and shams
FDA "strengthens" Advisory Committee process
"Consumer poll" values water softeners
"60 Minutes" commentary on difficulty of low-salt diets
Good advice, not just for Ironmen
FDA may allow midcourse adjustments for drug trials fror efficiency
Salt-loving gorillas
JAMA tightens conflict rules, sort of
Boston Globe asks right question: health outcomes
Chocolate: heart remedy? What's the salt angle?
What's happening to U.S. manufacturing jobs?
Full (and fair) disclosure
Are you introverted and non-confrontational?
Japanese longevity linked to diet
"NIMBY" or "Smart Growth"
Public supports data access
Deficits, immigration and salt
20 things we could do to be healthier
WHO takes its lumps at Hudson Institute conclave
FDA post-approval clinical trials for pills, policies?
Luttig retires after Salt Institute opinion
Credibility gap widens
Public health's credibility crisis
Salt debate leaves bitter taste
Compare Diets -- One Lowers Blood Pressure -- Other Extends Life
Fat or Fiction
Overturning political correctness in medicine
March is National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
Science journals delivering "political science"
Snow on the roads? There oughta be a law
Calcium and health outcomes
Diet foods: do they lead to healthier diets?
When the facts contravene conventional wisdom, go with the anecdotes?
Free trade "protects" niche salt market
Snow's coming (finally)
Low-fat diets lose luster (low-salt too!)
Dominoes: fat, salt
Brit anti-salt ad campaign admits to ad standard violations
Replication: "the ultimate test of truth in science"
Iodized salt boosts brainpower
New? DASH Diet??
Tao of the Dow
The Challenge of Winter Roadway Operations
Is science hopelessly politicized?
Mere Magazines
Thoughts on congestion
Blood pressure key: overcoming mineral deficiencies
Sea salt is not a good source of dietary iodine
Salt: Its role in preventing global warming
Scientific fraud and public health lunacy
The cost of Christmas
Consumers ignorant of first functional food: salt
Vioxx lessons for salt controversy
Preventing heart attacks
Winter's snowy start
Washington wake-up call
Scientists sequence genome of salt-resistant bacteria
Snowfighting a late arrival in Asia
Salt's a bargain
DASH for Thanksgiving
Cellini salt cellar makes Most Wanted List
HOW we lose weight (and lower blood pressure) really matters
Salt saves lives on winter roads
Sorting out salt and health issues
Fall Colors: Art on the Net
Qualified health claims quagmire
Measuring kosher salt
How many jelly beans are in the glass jar?
Get a fact-checker!
National Journal Blogroll notices Salt Sensibility
Prioritize highway operations, not construction
Inches and miles
DASH for health
Consumers confused about health claims
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Salt Institute president Dick Hanneman and technical director Mort Satin provide a wide-ranging commentary on current events as they pertain to salt.

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