{"id":18313,"date":"2011-07-13T14:45:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T19:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/?p=18313"},"modified":"2011-07-10T13:48:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T18:48:02","slug":"dont-listen-to-me-but-did-you-hear-this-about-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/07\/13\/dont-listen-to-me-but-did-you-hear-this-about-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you hear this about salt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Has anyone studied this one?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For decades, policy makers have tried and failed to get Americans to eat less salt. In April 2010 the Institute of Medicine urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regulate the amount of salt that food manufacturers put into products; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has already convinced 16 companies to do so voluntarily. But if the U.S. does conquer salt, what will we gain? Bland french fries, for sure. But a healthy nation? Not necessarily.<\/p>\n<p>This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the<em>American Journal of Hypertension<\/em> found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure. In May European researchers publishing in the\u00a0<em>Journal of the American Medical Association<\/em> reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine\u2014an excellent measure of prior consumption\u2014the\u00a0<em>greater <\/em>their risk was of dying from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/topic.cfm?id=heart-disease\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">heart disease<\/a>. These findings call into question the common wisdom that excess salt is bad for you, but the evidence linking salt to heart disease has always been tenuous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone studied this one? For decades, policy makers have tried and failed to get Americans to eat less salt. 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