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Default nice article on salt

On 6/15/2013 3:57 PM, Todd wrote:
> On 06/14/2013 07:17 PM, pavane wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>
>>> "Todd" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Mark Sisson (Mark's Daily Apple) has a nice article on salt:
>>>> http://www.marksdailyapple.com/salt-...s-it-good-for/
>>>>
>>>> -T
>>>
>>> I don't think it's nice at all! The writer starts out with a bunch of
>>> lies. That salt is "universally maligned and demonized". And that
>>> "all the experts hate it"! I'm not going to read any further. The
>>> author is a blatant liar. I don't know of anyone who tells people to
>>> avoid salt. The body *needs* sodium. Yes, a small percentage of
>>> people are put on a low sodium diet for various medical reasons. But
>>> mind you that is *low* and not *no*. But most people don't have to do
>>> this and it isn't recommended for most people. I don't know of any
>>> "expert" who would tell anyone to avoid salt. If they did, then they
>>> shouldn't be an "expert" at whatever it is they claim to be the
>>> expert at

>>
>> Brava Julie! The author of that article has seen far too many self-help
>> cure thyself medical travesties. Well stated critique.
>>
>> pavane

>
>
> Hi Pavane,
>
> You did not read the article. Or you only skimmed it. It's okay
> though.


No, it's not ok.
I understand you are trying very hard to be nice to everybody, but that
can be very counterproductive when dealing with people who are not
interested in real info but only to assert their superior knowledge
which they pull out of their butts.

Sometimes do the same thing and put my foot in my mouth
> much worse than you just did. I will write an impassioned
> rebuttal -- some of my better stuff too -- just to get told
> to read this and that sentence a little closer.
> But when you are among friends (eFriends count too), it's okay:
> and you will just get ribbed a little.
>
> It article was was really, really well done. It was a masterfully
> well done critique of the low salt crowd. In first section is
> described the the low salt crowd and named named. Gave their
> slogans too:
> The American Diabetes Association: Be Sodium Savvy
> The American Heart Association: Shaking the Salt Habit
> The American Dietetic Association" Slice Your Sodium Intake
> He named named.
>
> In the second section, he went into where they got all their bad
> information. That would be the study he referenced on the Yanomami
> of the Amazon. They had low sodium and low blood pressure young and
> old. He goes on to say why the study was fatally flawed. You
> then have to go to do another study on the same circumstances,
> except high sodium and see what you get. One was done on the
> Kuna of Panama. High sodium and low blood pressure. Sodium
> was not the culprit.
>
> He then proceeded to RIP the low sodium crowd a new one with study
> after study, including one on Diabetes.
>
> You ave got to re-read his article. And yes he write a lot of self
> help stuff. He is very good at what he does. And he backs it
> all up. And I did not sigh up for his news letter for over six months
> and I double checked every thing he writes. He knows what he is talking
> about.
>
> It is more fun when it isn't me putting my foot in my mouth.
>
> -T
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