Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2015-10-07

Is the sodium debate a legitimate scientific disagreement or a “controversy” manufactured by industry? 

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This is my second video in my new in-depth series on the sodium “controversy.” See the first one at High Blood Pressure May Be a Choice (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/high-blood-pressure-may-be-a-choice/).

More on hypertension in How to Prevent High Blood Pressure with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-prevent-high-blood-pressure-with-diet/) and How to Treat High Blood Pressure with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-treat-high-blood-pressure-with-diet/). What if you already eat healthy and still can’t get your pressures down? Try adding hibiscus tea (Hibiscus Tea vs. Plant-Based Diets for Hypertension http://nutritionfacts.org/video/hibiscus-tea-vs-plant-based-diets-for-hypertension/) and ground flax seeds (Flax Seeds for Hypertension http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flax-seeds-for-hypertension/) to your diet. And make sure you’re exercising regularly (Longer Life Within Walking Distance http://nutritionfacts.org/video/longer-life-within-walking-distance/).

But if you cut down on salt won’t everything taste like cardboard? Your taste buds shift remarkably quick: Changing Our Taste Buds (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/changing-our-taste-buds/).

If you’re surprised about industry tactics to distort the balance of evidence, here’s a few other poignant examples:
• The McGovern Report (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-mcgovern-report/)
• Big Sugar Takes on the World Health Organization (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-sugar-takes-on-the-world-health-organization/)
• Who Determines if Food Additives are Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/who-determines-if-food-additives-are-safe/)
• Who Says Eggs Aren’t Healthy or Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/who-says-eggs-arent-healthy-or-safe/)
• Collaboration with the New Vectors of Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/collaboration-with-the-new-vectors-of-disease/)
• Food Industry Funded Research Bias (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-industry-funded-research-bias/)

Lots more salt videos to come!

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sprinkling-doubt-taking-sodium-skeptics-with-a-pinch-of-salt and he'll try to answer it!

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