Are You Consuming Plastic with Your Sea Salt?

When plastic garbage makes its way to the sea, it eventually breaks down into tiny fragments that return to us in salty seasonings, Malaysian researchers report in Scientific Reports. In a survey of 16 sea salts from eight countries, researchers found microplastic particles lurking in all but one. In total, the researchers collected 72 particles from the salts and used micro-Raman spectroscopy to identify their components, which were mainly plastic polymers and pigments.

Study: Low Salt Intake Associated with High Death Rates

An article in the New England Journal of Medicine (August 14, 2014) studied the sodium levels in 101,945 persons from 17 countries. The scientists examined the association between sodium excretion and the outcome of death and major cardiovascular events. Sodium excretion correlates directly with sodium ingestion. This article is another in a long-line of salt articles debunking the myth that we need to lower our salt intake. I have tested thousands of patients for their salt levels. I can assure you that the vast majority of patients are low in salt.

Too Little Salt in the Diet, NOT Too Much, Associated with Higher Risk of Heart Disease

Salt is the second major constituent in our body, next to water. We need adequate amounts of good salt in our diet to run hundreds of different biochemical pathways. We have been conditioned to think that we should eat less salt. The powers-that-be routinely release edicts stating that we need to eat less salt in order to be healthier and have less hypertension. However, this is just not true. Eating less salt will not make us healthier and not lower the risk for hypertension. A new study shows that lower salt consumption actually results in higher rates of hypertension.

Limit Salt? More Nonsensical Advice

The Institute of Medicine has now reported that Americans should no longer limit their salt consumption. Low-salt diets can lead to increased risk of heart attack, as well as increased cholesterol, insulin levels, and hypertension, despite being told that salt was unhealthy for years.

How Africans have been fooled to think coconut oil and other traditional foods from their culture are unhealthy

by F. Abeku Adams
allafrica.com
Consistently, Ghanaians (Africans) have been told at different times in history that certain foods which were hitherto ‘traditional’ delicacies were not to be taken again for health reasons. We would then impulsively jump to the ‘good news’, stop consuming them and will subsequently kill the local industries whose […]