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A Pinch of Science
Michael H. Alderman op ed, New York Times, February 5, 2009
The campaign by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to reduce the salt content of foods sold in NYC grocery stores and restaurants is not science-based and could cause harm, argues Dr. Alderman, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Hypertension (and past president of both the International Society of Hypertension and the American Society of Hypertension).
Excerpt:
What really matters is whether reducing salt will ultimately prevent heart attacks and strokes and thus improve or extend life. And this depends not on blood pressure alone, but on all the metabolic consequences of limiting dietary sodium — which include greater resistance to insulin, increased sympathetic nerve activity and activation of the kidney-based renin-angiotensin system. All three of these effects increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. It is also possible that a change in this single dietary element might disturb unknown nutritional interactions and thus generate other as yet unrecognized effects, good or bad.
