What about the studies that show a “u-shaped curve,” where too much sodium is bad, but too little may be bad too?
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This video is part of my extended deep-dive series on sodium, with lots more to come. Here are the ones I put up so far:
• High Blood Pressure May Be a Choice (
• Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt (
• The Evidence That Salt Raises Blood Pressure (
Salt restriction is also important for kidney stones, How to Treat Kidney Stones with Diet ( but aren’t low-salt diets tasteless? Only for a little while. See Changing Our Taste Buds (
For more on how industry influence can distort nutritional science, see:
• The McGovern Report (
• Eggs and Cholesterol: Patently False and Misleading Claims (
• Collaboration with the New Vectors of Disease (
• Big Sugar Takes on the World Health Organization (
• Food Industry Funded Research Bias (
• Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (
• The Healthy Food Movement: Strength in Unity (
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