Hi Eric,

Thanks much for the great link.

Yes, two very big points with the salt/BP stuff of recent years.

1. The salt being studied was westernized, processed salt (like Morton's)
which is bad news - it has been altered to where the body cannot process it
effectively and it ends up in joints (arthritis), arteries (cardio), and so on.
2. However, the studies were not done well at all and they have been
pretty much debunked by medical and university researchers.

However, it is interesting to note that it started the whole "low-salt,
no-salt" craze. It is also interesting to note that chronic disease, such
as lyme, parkinsons, ALS, CFS, and so on, exponentially increased in this
time too. In Japan, they never had a history of lyme disease at
all. After they bought into the "low-sodium" kick from America in terms of
their long-standing, traditional high, naturally-occurring sodium items
like soy, teriyaki sauces, miso, etc., they then saw their first-ever cases
of lyme there. Hmm.

All the best,

Marc
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At 02:59 PM 12/7/2004 +0000, you wrote:


>I just thought I would share this with anyone wanting to read about
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>http://www.health-report.co.uk/sodium_chloride_salt_myths1.html
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