Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup

Re:Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup by pfarnsworth on Sunday June 17, 2018 @12:13AM (#17330839)

High salt diets == Hypertension and High fat == heart disease are two "scientific truths" that have been propagated for decades and have turned up as bad science.

I've heard the argument of "all the scientists believe this, so you must be wrong" so many times with these and it turned out I was right. I believe the same will go for other incidents of bad science that most people believe these days.

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Re:Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup by graeme on Sunday June 17, 2018 @12:17AM (#17330853)

Did anyone familir with the literature say "all the scientists believe this"?

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Re:Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup by reitanqild on Sunday June 17, 2018 @02:04AM (#17331097)

We've all heard it in school and through major newspaper and TV shows since we entered school.

It doesn't matter what the best experts says as long as those picked up by mainstream media and textbook authors consistently agree on the wrong thing.

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Re:Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup by graeme on Sunday June 17, 2018 @08:51PM (#17335224)

Makes sense. Just wanted to clarify in order to distinguish from a case like global warming, where there really is expert agreement.

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Re:Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup by pfarnsworth on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:49PM (#17351835)

There was expert agreement on both high salt and high fat diets for decades.

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