Now Salt isn't bad for you.

[telecat]

Seems much of the evidence is more than a little slanted due to amongst other things a researcher breeding salt hyper sensitive Rats?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-tim...

[PositronicRay]

I haven't read the article, stuff like this tends to annoy me.

Salt like many other "bad" things is necessary, just in moderation. I have a friend who was horrified when they saw me using (a little) seasoning while cooking, you'd have thought I was trying to murder her 1st born.

People are stupid.

[mybrainhurts]

Just like the climate scientists, crying Armageddon....

Then nothing happens.

The scientific community is very disappointing these days.

[telecat]

PositronicRay said:

I haven't read the article, stuff like this tends to annoy me.

Salt like many other "bad" things is necessary, just in moderation. I have a friend who was horrified when they saw me using (a little) seasoning while cooking, you'd have thought I was trying to murder her 1st born.

People are stupid.

It's not even in "moderation" unless you are a rat designed to react to the stuff. The healthy Mediterranean diet for example is quite high in salt and the Korean diet is very high. neither appear to effect people the way the "low salt" faction expect them to.

Edited by telecat on Tuesday 30th May 10:16

[anonymous-user]

My nan used to cook food in mass amounts of salt, I can still taste the stuff.

I hardly use it, but processed foods are the killer you can't taste it but they put shed loads in.

Edited by The Spruce goose on Monday 29th May 12:55

[grumbledoak]

We've been comprehensively lied to about food for decades. Still are. No truth in the advertising funded media at all.

Sugar is pretty evil. And our modern diet of mostly glucose isn't good for us. But it is very profitable for some, so everything else on earth gets the blame.

[Yipper]

What is becoming clear to science is that there are 7 billion people in the world, and each one of us has 10-70 trillion cells, and not everyone reacts to food, drink or meds in the same way. For example, some people are allergic to Summer pollen, while others are completely unaffected. In the case of salt, it looks like x% of people are sodium-sensitive and y% are completely unaffected. Researchers just can't work out yet what those precise percentages are. That is what causes the conflicting reports and ongoing uncertainty.

[King Herald]

mybrainhurts said:

Just like the climate scientists, crying Armageddon....

Then nothing happens.

The scientific community is very disappointing these days.

It is the media screaming it all over the world, exaggerating it, misquoting things, not the actually scientists.,

Anything to sell copy, and facts are mainly irrelevant.

[mybrainhurts]

King Herald said:

mybrainhurts said:

Just like the climate scientists, crying Armageddon....

Then nothing happens.

The scientific community is very disappointing these days.

It is the media screaming it all over the world, exaggerating it, misquoting things, not the actually scientists.,

Anything to sell copy, and facts are mainly irrelevant.

There is an element of that, but it's scientists who drive the crap relentlessly.

[clonmult]

mybrainhurts said:

King Herald said:

mybrainhurts said:

Just like the climate scientists, crying Armageddon....

Then nothing happens.

The scientific community is very disappointing these days.

It is the media screaming it all over the world, exaggerating it, misquoting things, not the actually scientists.,

Anything to sell copy, and facts are mainly irrelevant.

There is an element of that, but it's scientists who drive the crap relentlessly.

Nope, its mainly the press, not the scientists. And you say "scientists" like its all of them. There may be a few beliggerent scientists who try to promote their world view, but they're in the minority.

With regards salt, I was chatting to a colleague who ran the MDS - he had to take in a LOT of a salt to keep him going, that would have some people thinking he was trying to commit suicide (which is what I thought of him running the MDS).

[Foliage]

grumbledoak said:

We've been comprehensively lied to about food for decades. Still are. No truth in the advertising funded media at all.

Sugar is pretty evil. And our modern diet of mostly glucose isn't good for us. But it is very profitable for some, so everything else on earth gets the blame.

All in the name of profit.

[hairyben]

Yipper said:

What is becoming clear to science is that there are 7 billion people in the world, and each one of us has 10-70 trillion cells, and not everyone reacts to food, drink or meds in the same way. For example, some people are allergic to Summer pollen, while others are completely unaffected. In the case of salt, it looks like x% of people are sodium-sensitive and y% are completely unaffected. Researchers just can't work out yet what those precise percentages are. That is what causes the conflicting reports and ongoing uncertainty.

^this, like in so much theres too much of this one rule must fit all nonsense going on, my mrs is coeliac and dairy intolerant and if she doesnt eat by 10am and every few hours she'll be "hangry", I can eat anything, or indeed nothing all day and not notice. We have vastly differing dietary needs.