FW: Salt-FYI

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This is so true….. A healthy Kidney can definitely handle the salt. We do

not know how much salt overuse or abuse our kidneys could handle. Our

healthy kidneys are amazing. At least we know not to drink sea water….does

that count. How about all those salted Margaritas and Bloody ’s??? Do

you think everyone will be heading for the salt shaker?

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From: rd-usa [mailto:rd-usa ] On Behalf Of

Ortiz, R.D.

Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 2:43 PM

To: Rita

Cc: Dianne Vitt; Kris Bonham; Sandy Cauvet; RD USA

Subject: Salt-FYI

http://www.chicagot <http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/>

ribune.com/news/opinion/

chi-0608240021aug24,1,4787384.story

Feder, Editor, Wellness Foods magazine

Putman Media Inc

August 24, 2006

Itasca -- Chicago dietitian and nutrition consultant Janet Helm's

article " Shaking our salt addiction; Sodium looms as a dietary

danger, but oh, how we love what it does to food " (Good Eating, Aug.

16) perpetuates an out-of-control falsehood regarding salt.

According to known science, a healthy person has as much chance of

suffering a negative health impact from salt as he or she would from

a mango.

The demonization of salt--even by such groups as the American Medical

Association--is based on a combination of misrepresented research,

poorly controlled studies and plain " old wives' tales. "

Even that Holy Grail of anti-sodium studies, the DASH (Dietary

Approaches to Stop Hypertension), reaches a conclusion in direct

contradiction of its results.

To date, no definitive body of scientific evidence supports the

restriction of sodium in a healthy person's diet--the evidence simply

isn't there.

At this point, after decades of perpetuation of the " salt is

dangerous " myth, any doctor, dietitian, nutrition scientist (or

journalist) suggesting otherwise to a healthy client is committing

nothing less than a violation of professional ethics.

Check Nutrition at:

Nutrition.teach-nology.com

Ortiz, RD

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