No Association Between Salt And Blood Pressure, Study Finds

Re:No Association Between Salt And Blood Pressure, Study Finds by JoeAltmaier on Thursday September 11, 2014 @07:18AM (#8301886)

I was with you until the last sentence. I'm from a whole family of skinny people. We eat like horses, just to maintain our weight. Nobody gets even a little tummy bulge until they're 45 or 50. My middle son is currently 6'3" and 150 lbs and eats constantly, the highest-calorie foods available to him, as much as several other people. Always has. When in high school for an after-school snack we baked one frozen pizza for the family, one for him.

This is clearly some genetic thing - I was the same way; my nieces are the same way (one getting married in a size 2, that had to be taken in). Eats ice cream by the quart, as often as she can get it.

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Re:No Association Between Salt And Blood Pressure, Study Finds by JoeAltmaier on Thursday September 11, 2014 @07:34AM (#8301947)

Oh and our cholesterol is 125 too. And no heart disease.

Folks, denial isn't an argument, so please say something instead of just clicking down. I've just mentioned all this not as a straw-man but because a claim of an absolute (Everybody who is skinny isn't eating much) can be disputed by a single counter-example. That's all.

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Re:No Association Between Salt And Blood Pressure, Study Finds by sten on Thursday September 11, 2014 @11:11AM (#8303010)

A counter example works only on an absolute statement. He didn't say literally ever skinny person met those criteria, rather:

>Not really. Those skinny people are eating less (in aggregate) than the fat people, again barring some very rare metabolic condition. Guaranteed.

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