Comments on: Salt debate hots up http://scepticalnutritionist.com.au/?p=922 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 23:15:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben Balzer http://scepticalnutritionist.com.au/?p=922#comment-1268 Ben Balzer Mon, 24 Jun 2013 01:39:05 +0000 http://scepticalnutritionist.com.au/?p=922#comment-1268 Hi Bill Salt always confuses as people use 3 units: mmol/day mg of SODIUM/ day mg of SODiUM CHLORIDE/day. Mmol/day seems to figure a lot in medical recommendations, but then we have to deal with the mg per serving in food! Can you clear that up? Unfortunately salt research will always be inconclusive due to genetics. 5% of the European population carry cystic fibrosis genes. They excrete chloride like mad. They need a bit more salt than the rest of us. Homozygotes have clinical cystic fibrosis and it is dangerous to deprive them of salt. Why are 5% of the populations heteroxygotes? Nobody knows. Perhaps they have an advantage because they can “detoxify” salt. But there is no point doing any salt research unless you screen the study population and remove CF heterozygotes. Unfortunately there seems to be no realisation of this simple fac! t in salt research. Maybe I should write them a letter. Ben Balzer Hi Bill
Salt always confuses as people use 3 units:
mmol/day
mg of SODIUM/ day
mg of SODiUM CHLORIDE/day.
Mmol/day seems to figure a lot in medical recommendations, but then we have to deal with the mg per serving in food!
Can you clear that up?

Unfortunately salt research will always be inconclusive due to genetics.
5% of the European population carry cystic fibrosis genes. They excrete chloride like mad. They need a bit more salt than the rest of us. Homozygotes have clinical cystic fibrosis and it is dangerous to deprive them of salt.
Why are 5% of the populations heteroxygotes? Nobody knows. Perhaps they have an advantage because they can “detoxify” salt.
But there is no point doing any salt research unless you screen the study population and remove CF heterozygotes.
Unfortunately there seems to be no realisation of this simple fac! t in salt research. Maybe I should write them a letter.

Ben Balzer

]]> By: Paul Rogers http://scepticalnutritionist.com.au/?p=922#comment-1267 Paul Rogers Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:36:29 +0000 http://scepticalnutritionist.com.au/?p=922#comment-1267 Good article, Bill, and I agree that we haven't heard the last of this one. Good article, Bill, and I agree that we haven’t heard the last of this one.

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