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My understanding [please correct me, I'm not a doctor] is that it's recently come to light that there is very, very little evidence, if any, that salt is bad fo
by SeanLuke 6y ago
My understanding [please correct me, I'm not a doctor] is that it's recently come to light that there is very, very little evidence, if any, that salt is bad for you (aside from people with certain heart conditions), yet the whole medical profession loudly proclaims that salt is in general bad for you.
Regardless of whether future evidence may demonstrate that salt is bad for you, or that q-tips are bad for you, this sort of thing seems to be the medical field's version of the urban legend. Everybody believes X because they heard someone else -- maybe a professor at school -- stating it, but ultimately it has little scientific basis, and it takes years to root it out. I wonder how often this happens, and what can be done to counter it.
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- voxgen 6y agoActually, blood pressure is the determiner of whether high intake of salt is bad for you. High sodium intake is only associated with increased risk in people with high blood pressure. However, having too little sodium is associated with increased risk regardless of blood pressure. Source: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30467-6/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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- copperx 6y agoHigh salt intake is associated with stomach, esophageal, breast and other cancers, so it's not innocuous even if your blood pressure is fine.