Daily Topics - Thursday March 7th, 2013
By shawnt56
Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm ET M-F!
Hour One: Will big banks cause the end of capitalism? Austin Petersen, Freedomworks
Hour Two: Will your town force you to own a gun? Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio / Plus, Geeky Science - How salty food can make you sicker than you thought
Hour Three: BREAKING-Climate Catastrophe...closer than we think
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
By webmaster
Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
Images of Thom
Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
From Cracking the Code:
"Thom Hartmann ought to be bronzed. His new book sets off from the same high plane as the last and offers explicit tools and how-to advice that will allow you to see, hear, and feel propaganda when it's directed at you and use the same techniques to refute it. His book would make a deaf-mute a better communicator. I want him on my reading table every day, and if you try one of his books, so will you."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Thom Hartmann is a literary descendent of Ben Franklin and Tom Paine. His unflinching observations and deep passion inspire us to explore contemporary culture, politics, and economics; challenge us to face the facts of the societies we are creating; and empower us to demand a better world for our children and grandchildren."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Through compelling personal stories, Hartmann presents a dramatic and deeply disturbing picture of humans as a profoundly troubled species. Hope lies in his inspiring vision of our enormous unrealized potential and his description of the path to its realization."
Salt
I have been reading Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. It seems that the relationship between nutrition/diet and disease is not as straight forward as some make it out to be. Salt became the devil back in the 1970s or 80s when it was linked to high blood pressure. However further research found that the body (kidneys) can deal with excess salt except when there is refined carbohydrates mucking up the works. Sucrose, white flour, and other highly refined carbohydrates hinder the kidneys from removing the sodium and passing it in urine.
This research was done at least in part with people that were not living a 20th century life-style and were introduced to a more modern diet. When they started eating salt they developed high blood pressure and other related diseases of the circulatory system. What the researchers ignored and didn’t report was that people who aren’t eating salt are not eating refined carbohydrates either.
What I have learned about taking the word of the AMA or the USDA with regard to diet or anything (really) is that we cannot assume that they are correct. They are wrong more than they are right, and we must question everything—not unlike politics. So maybe salt is the villain this time, but I wouldn’t get on that bandwagon yet…