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Study: High Salt Intake May Directly Increase Risk of Obesity
- jcr 11y agoThere's been a ton of mostly lightweight, trivial, and linkbait laden media coverage [1] on this new research paper. I submitted the actiononsalt.org.uk url since Graham MacGregor is the Chairman of Consensus Action on Salt & Health (CASH) group, as well as the author of the paper and a professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Queen Mary University of London. The paper, "High Salt Intake - Independent Risk Factor for Obesity," is published in the "Hypertension" journal of the American Heart Association which is sadly stuck behind yet another pointless science-killing paywall. Luckily, Graham MacGregor has made the paper publicly available [2]. I have no idea how this new research ties in with recent obesity research at MIT and Harvard [3, 4], but it's interesting to ponder. [1] http://www.actiononsalt.org.uk/news/Salt%20in%20the%20news/2015/162494.html http://www.actiononsalt.org.uk/news/Salt%20in%20the%20news/2... [2] http://www.wolfson.qmul.ac.uk/images/files/pdf/Hypertension_article2.pdf http://www.wolfson.qmul.ac.uk/images/files/pdf/Hypertension_... [3] https://news.mit.edu/2015/pathway-controls-metabolism-underlying-obesity-0819 https://news.mit.edu/2015/pathway-controls-metabolism-underl... [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10109775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10109775