Further proof that we should take what "the experts" say with, well, a grain of salt:
For all the talk about the growing menace of sodium in packaged foods, experts aren't even sure that Americans today are eating more salt than they used to.
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But is it even possible to get the public to permanently reduce salt consumption? Researchers have had a hard enough time getting people to cut back during short-term supervised experiments.
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“When you reduce salt,” Dr. Alderman said, “you reduce blood pressure, but there can also be other adverse and unintended consequences. As more data have accumulated, it's less and less supportive of the case for salt reduction, but the advocates seem more determined than ever to change policy.”
Those of us who have been skpetical have been derided as salt deniers, akin to those who say the Holocaust never happened. But it turns out that the science isn't "settled" at all, and the debate is anything but over. The saltists can now be denounced as the fearmongers they are.
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Much like global warming, global cooling, transfats, sugar, coffee, caffeine, hot cups of coffee, carbs, ddt, butter, margarine, red meat, red wine, white wine, etc etc etc the salt debate obviously needs more government oversight, intervention and regulation.
Let's see, this is Tuesday, does anyone know what this weeks imminent threat is?
Tim:
You forgot gamma ray bursts, solar flares, the Mayan calendar, monosodum glutamate and red coloring #2...LOL!
(oh yeah...it's Tuesday, Boss!)
threat of the week:
Death due to excessive progressivism!
;)
Yeah, missed a few like csars, H1N1,avian flu, swine flu before the H1N1, suntans, pork, the list is endless.
The are literally thousands of examples whereby a small but vocal group backed and funded by our government has invented a national threat/emergency/scurge/ etc based upon no evidence, shakey evidence, false evidence, even wholly made up evidence.
United States Government run health care? Golly, what could possibly go wrong.
Yes, I caught the little dig at me. Cute.
At the risk of being pedantic, I would like to point out that, contrary to common opinion, science is never "settled." All scientific conclusions are subject to change as new data are obtained. That's what makes science different from other epistemologies, such as faith.
Who do you think raised the possibility that the hazards of sodium may have been exaggerated, a priest? No. A scientist.
If you can't concede that you may be wrong, then you aren't doing science.
I think Republicans hate science because they simply don't understand it.
And government policies are not "science." That's an entirely different realm. I, for one, don't want the government telling me how much salt to eat whether it's bad for me or not. I think we can agree on that.
Littlejohn, "I think Republicans hate science because they simply don
Where have all the scientist gone, long time passing
Where have all the scientists gone, long time ago
Where have all the scientists gone
Gone to East Anglia every one
When will they ever learn, When will they ever learn?
Remember, only you can prevent solar flares!