Thousands have died apparently.
Voluntary action by the food industry and retailers has failed to bring the nation’s salt intake down to safe levels and thousands of people have died unnecessarily as a result, say campaigners.
Okay. Name one. Go on.
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I think there might be someone who suffered social death asking for salt on their tofu.
They will equate all cardiovascular type deaths with excess salt. It’s what they do. Too much salt re death is very rare as is that from excessive water intake hence too little salt. What they always fail to recognise is co and multiple morbidity. Many who die from cardiovascular related disease are unwell from several conditions. Salt is usually irrelevant.
In my opinion most heart attacks and strokes are caused by undiagnosed type 2 diabetes which can cause havoc if left untreated
Well! Obviously strict legislation’s needed, and needed now!! *stamps little feet*
If your kidneys are working reasonably well then excess salt is no problem. Cut it out entirely and you will die pretty quickly.
As part of the Freedom to Choose battle over the smoking ban I can categorically state that unfortunately the “name one” tactic doesn’t work. They will come up with all sorts of reasons why nobody has SALT stamped on their death certificate and will then pull out all the studies that show an increased RR of something miniscule which they will convince the numpty’s of the world is actually massive and “how are you even still alive if you’ve ever been in a room with a salt pot…”
Been there seen it got t shirt…
The whole salt busienss has had a very bad outcome for me because my favourite salted Pistacchios have become almost unavailable, except fortunately over Christmas it seems.
Wankers.
Unsalted pistacchios taste like fucking cardboard.
It’s like the war on sugar. Baked beans have become tasteless since they took the sugar out. I put it back in. Works a treat.
‘Safe levels’… since everyone’s metabolism differs and there are 66 million people in the UK, that would be 66 million ‘safe levels’.
1) Define: safe.
2) How exactly would these individual levels be established, by whom and at what cost?
3) How frequently would they be reviewed given that individual metabolism changes with a variety of factors, for example, age, activity, diet, pregnancy, illness, exercise?
Time to open up the lunatic asylums again, care in the community is not working.
I think that this stuff came from Public Health England. They are paid with our money to come out with this kind of junk. I am pretty active and work up a sweat on a pretty regular basis, If I didn’t get enough salt I think that I would become deficient pretty quickly.