Salt Wars
Sydney Morning Herald
December 3, 2012
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“Any diabetic with high blood pressure who walks into George Jerums’ Melbourne clinic will get the standard advice: if their salt intake is high, they should halve it. This is despite the fact that when Professor Jerums and his former PhD student, Dr Elif Ekinci, studied the salt intake of 638 elderly type-2 diabetics who went through his clinic at Heidelberg’s Austin Health, they found that those who ate less salt were significantly more likely to die.”
Salt: the latest health food?
Sydney Morning Herald
The message that liberal sprinklings of sodium, the main component of salt, is devastating for health has now become conventional wisdom worldwide. High salt intake is linked to high blood pressure, or hypertension, a key risk factor for strokes, heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases – the world’s number one killers.
Take warnings with a grain of salt
The Daily Telegraph, pg 9
7th July 2011
