Weight Matters discussed a paper recently published that questions the impact of excess sodium on health. It could be one of those things that is correlated with poor health and not necessarily the cause of it.

Notes from article:
I once referred to salt as a “dietary red herring”, whereby I wondered whether or not in modern first world nations the risks extended to high dietary sodium consumption might be indirect whereby high dietary sodium consumption serves as a marker for the consumption of nutritionally awful, highly processed garbage which in turn confers the risk.
The authors postulated that dietary salt intake might be increasing physiologic thirst and that consequently the saltier the food, the more soda they drink.
Also possible is that kids who eat the saltiest foods are the ones with the worst overall dietary patterns.
Whatever the mechanism, when it comes to dietary sodium reduction, and things like regulations and task […]

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