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New Studies Fuel The Debate Over Sodium
Three papers and an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine are sure to throw fresh fuel on the ongoing fiery debate over sodium recommendations. Current guidelines recommend that people...
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An Expert’s Perspective: Why Salt Is Not Like Tobacco And Why Guidelines Are...
At the center of this week’s renewed debate on salt was Salim Yusuf, the long influential and often controversial cardiology researcher and clinical trialist based at McMaster University in Hamilton,...
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Why Guidelines Should Be Waged Like War
Here’s a modest proposal: we need fewer and shorter guidelines. In fact, I’d like to propose that guidelines, like war, should be waged only when there is absolute consensus and overwhelming evidence....
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How Much Salt Should Old People Consume?
A new study offers fresh evidence that current salt recommendations should be taken with, well, a grain of salt. Current guidelines now recommend that everyone should have sodium intake levels below...
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Salt, Science, And The American Heart Association’s Double Standard
Once again the American Heart Association is sticking by its recommendation that pretty much everyone should consume no more than 1,500 milligrams of sodium each day. This is dramatically lower than...
View ArticlePaper Raises More Questions About Salt Restriction In Heart Failure
Sodium restriction is a cornerstone of heart failure management, but many people would be surprised to learn that there is no good supporting evidence for the practice. In the 2009 heart failure...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Salt Restriction Only Beneficial In People With Hypertension
–More questions raised about broad efforts to restrict salt; AHA condemns study A large new analysis offers more evidence that broad salt restriction doesn’t benefit most people and may even harm some...
View ArticleFDA Proposes Voluntary Sodium Cuts by Food Industry
–AMA, AHA, ACC, etc voice support, but not everyone agrees. After decades of discussion and inaction, the FDA today took a first concrete step toward reducing sodium levels in the general population:...
View ArticleInternational Experts Call Salt Guidelines Far Too Restrictive
A broad group of international experts are recommending a far more modest and less draconian approach to sodium restriction than current U.S. and international guidelines. In a new paper, published...
View ArticleSalt War Opponents Unite In Call For Randomized Trial In Prisons
The opposing camps in the salt wars don’t agree on much, but they have now found common ground in their belief that the only way to settle the salt question is with a large randomized controlled trial....
View ArticleLancet Paper Adds To Evidence That Reducing Salt To Very Low Levels May Be...
A new paper from a very large ongoing observational study offers additional and more powerful evidence that dramatic reductions in salt consumption may not be beneficial and might even prove harmful....
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