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To: Lane3 who wrote (60796)	8/16/2004 1:29:12 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 793824

The Salt Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce challenged data that led the National Institutes of Health to recommend that people cut back on salt. I don't know very much about hormone disruption of wildlife due to herbicides nor heavy metals in wood products, but I do know a little bit about salt in the diet. I say "a little bit" because the data are contradictory as to whether reducing sodium in the diet is a good thing or counterproductive. You may have read recently that people on low sodium diets may actually have more heart attacks, possibly because reducing the electrolytes in the bloodstream. A substantial percentage of people with hypertension get good results from reducing sodium in the diet, but the exact percentage of the general population who are salt sensitive is less than 50%, maybe only 26%. We just have to look at the recent controversy over low carb diets and the government sponsored "food pyramid" to realize that governments sometimes stick their noses into scientific controversies where they don't belong.

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