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.
