Daily Topics - Thursday March 7th, 2013
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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…