The War of Salt

   To be honest, I didn't even know that many people argue over having too much salt in foods or not but I am here to tell you what the people have researched about salt. Policy makers have tried to get Americans to eat less salt. American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces risk for heart attacks, strokes, or death of people with high or normal blood pressure. Did you know people started fearing salt over more than a century ago? That is crazy! French doctors said 6 of their patients who had high blood pressure were salt fiends. In 1977, the US Senate's Select committee on Nutrition and Human needs released a report saying that Americans cut their salt intake by 50 to 85 percent, based largely on Dahl's work. Studies that have explored direct relationship between salt and heart disease have not fared much better. A 2006 American Journal of Medicine study compared the reported daily sodium intakes of 78 million Americans to their risk of dying from heart disease over course of 14 years. It found that more sodium people ate, it is less likely they were to die from heart disease. For every study that suggests that salt is unhealthy, another does not. Some physicians argue that although tiny blood pressure drops will not have a big effect on individuals, they may end up saving lives at the populaton level, in part because a small percentage of population seem to be hypersensitive to salt. This topic was very fun and interesting to learn about and I hope you learned some things from this blog like I did.

Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt/

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