Crazies where I work

[paulpablo]

The foods I tend to try and eat as much of as possible are sweet potatoes, chickpeas, spinach, turkey & chicken and eggs.

I'm into gaining strength but I don't see the point in a lot of supplements. I've considered trying steroids but don't like the idea of messing around with the bodies natural levels of hormones. 

I've heard arguments for and against lots of supplements so to avoid confusion I just think I might aswell avoid them and just stick to foods which are pretty much proven to be healthy in moderation.

[Silver]

Science Babe discredits ignorant Food Babe

[Alex K]

The U.S. government has convinced people (without evidence) that salt is bad for them.  We are saltwater animals and require salt.  Our bodies process salt just fine.  What is a problem, is the chemicals in our foods.  We went from butter to margarine (fake butter) and now we have fake margarine.

Between the bleaching, processing and chemicalization of all our foodstuffs, it is a wonder that we could survive on real food at all.

There is no evidence for high blood pressure from high salt intake?

[IATIA]

The U.S. government has convinced people (without evidence) that salt is bad for them.  We are saltwater animals and require salt.  Our bodies process salt just fine.  What is a problem, is the chemicals in our foods.  We went from butter to margarine (fake butter) and now we have fake margarine.

Between the bleaching, processing and chemicalization of all our foodstuffs, it is a wonder that we could survive on real food at all.

There is no evidence for high blood pressure from high salt intake?

Their report (which is over 150 pages) was released recently. A major conclusion of the IOM paper is that the quality of the current evidence linking salt to health outcomes is very poor. There are virtually no randomized studies and the rest of the studies suffer from important methodological flaws (like imprecisely measuring salt intake or using self-reported food diaries to estimate salt intake).

[robvalue]

I guess you need to take those studies with a grain of salt.

[Jackalope]

I wonder, if Kool-Aid started labeling their products "dihydrogen-oxide-free" if we would start hearing about the dangers of "dihydrogen-oxide" soon thereafter.

Dude, are you serious!?!?!  Dihydrogen oxide KILLS puppies and kids.

Dangerous, dangerous stuff.  Ban it, I say.

[Kitty Galore]

I guess you need to take those studies with a grain of salt.

[downbeatplumb]

The U.S. government has convinced people (without evidence) that salt is bad for them.  We are saltwater animals and require salt.  Our bodies process salt just fine.  What is a problem, is the chemicals in our foods.  We went from butter to margarine (fake butter) and now we have fake margarine.

Between the bleaching, processing and chemicalization of all our foodstuffs, it is a wonder that we could survive on real food at all.

In excess it is quite bad.
But then so is oxygen.

[IATIA]

And from 'Scientific American'.

It's Time to End the War on Salt

[dyresand]