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We should take this latest diktat on nutrition with a pinch of salt



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Published Date: 20 September 2008
By David Purves
MILLIONS of years in the past, our human ancestors bore a greater resemblance to fish than apes.
And as these prehistoric mud-skippers made their first tentative flops out of the ocean and on to the beaches of primeval Earth, they carried in their bodies a level of sodium chloride – or salt – similar to the amount present in seawater at that ...



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zeno,

www.thinkhumanism.com 20/09/2008 00:52:38
Unless is was because of lack of space, an article full of non sequiturs is not very convincing.

Is Dr Purves saying that our bodies will cope with whatever excess salt we pump into it simply by making us drink more, therefore we don't need to worry? Is it really that simple?

The effect on health of high salt intake never got even a mention in his article: don't high levels of salt increase blood pressure with all the problems that brings?

 

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