Re:Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup
by coaxial on Saturday June 16, 2018 @08:42PM
(#17330314)
I remember reading that it's because they're impossible to do: the only option would be to lock people up in a room and only feed them exactly the same food on a schedule for months.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
There were some interesting observations about salt with people who did a 135-day simulation of life on the Mir space station.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/health/salt-health-effect...
There is also the confounding factor of gut microbiome (people who had more fiber continuously IIRC having a more diverse/probably better for health, microbiome) influencing results of diet or vice versa.
Haven't they done nutrition studies in the military and in prisons because of the level of control over food intake?
Maybe, but how biased is the population? People in the army do a lot more physical exercise than most, people in jail have a different way of living than the rest of the population because of their circumstances.