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Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated'
An anonymous reader writes: Diagnosed with high blood pressure? If so, you were probably told to moderate or avoid the use salt in your food. Well, a new study (abstract found that salt is not associated with systolic blood pressure after controlling for other factors. The study found that BMI, age, and alcohol consumption all strongly influenced blood pressure, and concluded that maintaining a healthy body weight was the best way to counteract it. The publication of this research follows a CDC report from Tuesday decrying the amount of salt in children's diets — a report that lists high blood pressure as one of its main concerns. The debate on this issue is far from over, and it'll take years to sort out all the contradictory evidence.
Apparently, you kan't read. The very link you posted explained that it was largely due to infant mortality and lack of sanitation. It wasn't from eating egg yolks and salt and it certainly wasn't from failing to substitute transfats for toxic butter.
The original study linking sodium to high blood pressure was to feed a rat an intake equivalent to 500g of salt in a human per day. Humans are safe up to 6g of sodium intake per day; salt is a lot more than 10% sodium by mass.
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Everything about that link screams "quack", as do your claims:
* Gluten isnt bad for you, unless you have a specific allergy or condition.
* That claim about margarine being plastic is dumb and based on the absurdly stupid notion that molecules that look similar are similar. By that logic, water is flammable (only one atom off of H2!), highly oxidizing (H2O2) and potentially highly acidic (H2SO4)
* Carbs dont lead to obesity; inactivity and a crappy diet do. Want proof, look at any highly-active runner-- they tend to eat a lot of carbs and still are pretty fit
* Noone knows what causes alzheimers other than "plaques in your brain".
* The sources listed in that naturalnews.com article are horrendous; none of them an actual scientific publication, one of them "goodworkswellness.com" and another a blog? Wow.
You're right about needing cholesterol, but generally the problem is people getting too much, not too little.