Show 1160: How Good Is the Evidence for Cutting Salt?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

For decades, public health experts have been admonishing Americans to cut the salt in our diets. In fact, the American Heart Association recommends that we limit ourselves to 2,300 mg of sodium daily. That’s about one teaspoon. Ideally, the AHA says, we would get less than 1,500 mg of this crucial mineral every day. Should […]

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0:20.4	Health experts have been telling us for decades to cut back on salt.
0:27.0	How strong is the science supporting this advice?
0:30.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden.
0:35.0	Dr. Aaron
0:42.0	Dr. Aaron Carroll, Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at Indiana University School of Medicine,
0:48.0	says the scientific support behind drastically cutting salt is surprisingly weak.
0:54.0	We don't have the evidence, we think we know what we're talking about, we tell everyone what
0:58.6	to do no matter how hard it is or whether it's impossible, we see equivocal results and then we wonder why no one wants to listen
1:05.1	to us as physicians.
1:06.7	It's really, it's troubling.
1:08.4	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, your calls in questions about standard health recommendations and pain relievers.
1:14.8	First, this news. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, a life-threatening drug-resistant fungal infection is spreading around the country.
1:30.0	The CDC is reporting outbreaks of Canada Ores in 12 states.
1:36.0	New York, New Jersey and Illinois have been especially hard hit.
1:40.0	The first case of Sea Ores was detected in Japan a decade ago.
1:45.0	No one had paid attention to it before because it wasn't causing any trouble,
1:50.0	but once it became drug-resistant,
1:52.0	it started to overwhelm people with impaired immunity.
1:55.0	Three years ago, seven cases were discovered in the U.S.
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