Does "Excess" Dietary Salt Cause Cardiovascular Toxicity?
Abassi, Lila
Salt is essential to human health but it has also been a topic of concern for the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health, who advise dramatic restrictions in some medical patients and restrictions across the board, even for healthy people. Yet their recommendations are based on inconsistent data that match diaries recalling food intake with health outcomes and they ignore studies defying it. It's a case where nutritio...