On Monday it was smoking, Tuesday it was alcohol, we did obesity on Wednesday, so today's cause of early death/burden on the NHS must be, er, give me a second... ah yes, that's it, it's processed meat. Tomorrow it will be lack of exercise or something.
What about salt? Oh, let's do that today as well, it ties in nicely with the processed meat.
H/t Bob E.
Ah - so it is a class war
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"Prof Hafler added that a low salt-diet was, however, unlikely to cause harm."
What planet is he on? Does he not know the effects of a lack of salt in the diet? I suppose suffering from cramp isn't "causing harm".
There were two studies that indicated that auto-immune disorders were likely to be caused by too-clean living, specifically the absence of a parasite we have evolved to accept, but these are never mentioned, presumably because they fly in the face of various health orthodoxies.
I was sorry not to see the best named fakecharity ever, CASH (Consensus Action on Salt and Health), getting any exposure.
A search on Author or various keywords in BMC Medicine doesn't locate this article.
Which implies that it hasn't been published yet. If so, this is a fine example of "science" by press release. Get the wooo publicity, then when the data becomes available later and is torn to pieces, it's the wooo that's remembered.
(If anyone's better at searching and can find it, I'll rethink.)
B, me too.
VFTS, there's a link in this BBC article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21682779
Thanks Mark. It's there is now, when I looked previously that link just took me to the BMC Medicine home page, dated 06 March. Which has now changed to contain the report.
So it was just reporting by cut & paste from the press release.
First response I've seen so far
"In absolute terms, that summary suggests that over 94 per cent of the people in the study survived. So, very roughly, maybe 92 per cent of the heaviest meat eaters survived and 96 per cent of the lowest meat eaters survived, with most people somewhere in between."
There's a lot of statistical manipulation to arrive at their results. But among the dozens of attributions there is only a lonely name at the Dept of Biostatistics at University of Oslo.
I'll read it tonight over a bacon sarnie.
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