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- The (Political) Science of Salt
- Raising the World's I.Q.
- Is sea salt better for you than regular salt?
- Salt Guru on Sea Salt (video)
- Salt Guru on Obesity (video)
- Salt Guru: Salt Roasting Sea Bass(video)
- Salt Guru: Iodized Salt (video)
- Salt, Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Disease
- Sodium intake and mortality
- Sodium/Water balance important to health--WebMD video
Resources
Popular news stories of sustained interest
The importance of overall diet quality to better health
The importance of quality in medical studies
Population advisories on salt intake
Mental capacity (brain development)/iodine deficiency
Hyponatremia (water intoxication)
Popular news stories of sustained interest
* Taubes, The (Political) Science of Salt
* Alderman, A Pinch of Science (NYC’s salt reduction campaign)
* Kristof, Raising the World's IQ
* Mayo Clinic, Is sea salt better for you than regular salt?
* Mother awarded £800,000 damages from low-sodium diet
* Is Detox Safe? ("Detox" is a low-sodium, high water diet)
The importance of overall diet quality to better health
* Kant, Dietary patterns and health outcomes
* Satin, The Whole Diet: A Context for Food Choices
The importance of quality in medical studies
* Sackett, Evidence-based medicine; what it is and what it isn't
* Dietary Sodium Intake and Its Relation to Human Health: A Summary of the Evidence, Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2006
* Alderman, Salt, Blood Pressure, and Cardiovascular Disease, Presidential address, International Society of Hypertension (37-minute video with slides)
* Tunstall-Pedhoe, Comparison of the prediction by 27 different factors of coronary heart disease and death in men and women of the Scottish heart health study: cohort study
* Tuomilehto, Urinary sodium excretion and cardiovascular mortality in Finland and Health Outcomes from Finland’s Salt Reduction
* Geleijense, Sodium and Potassium Intake and Risk of Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality: The Rotterdam Study
Population advisories on salt intake
* Hooper, Advice to reduce dietary salt for prevention of cardiovascular disease (Cochrane Review)
* US Preventive Services Task Force (HHS), Counseling to Promote a Healthy Diet
* Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2005)
* Dietary Reference Intakes (Sodium and Chloride)
Salt intake and disease risk factors
* Jürgens, Effects of low sodium diet versus high sodium diet on blood pressure, renin, aldosterone, catecholamines, cholesterols, and triglyceride (Cochrane Review)
* Tunstall-Pedoe, Scottish Heart Health Study (coronary heart disease and death)
* Sodium intake and mortality in the NHANES II follow up study
Blood pressure
* Intersalt Study (Swales commentary)
* Trials of Hypertension Prevention
* Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)
Insulin resistance/sensitivity
* Low-Salt Diets and Insulin Resistance
* Moderate Dietary Salt Restriction Increases Vascular and Systemic Insulin Resistance
Plasma renin activity
* Grassi, Neuroadrenergic effects of salt reduction
Mental capacity (brain development)/Iodine deficiency
* Hetzel, Towards The Global Elimination of Brain Damage Due to Iodine Deficiency
* Hollowell, The prevalence of iodine deficiency in women of reproductive age in the United States of America
Hyponatremia (water intoxication)
* WHO, Salt, Sugar and Water Avert Diarrhea Deaths
* Can too much water hurt you? WebMD video
* Heaney, Role of Dietary Salt and osteoporosis
* Ram, Salt and Asthma (Cochrane Review)
* Pogson, Salt and Asthma
* Duley and Henderson-Smart, Reduced salt intake compared to normal dietary salt, or high intake, in pregnancy (Cochrane Review)
Salt Guru: Salt Roasted Sea Bass (video)