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- Scottrade To Offer A Fee Free Semi-drip Plan?
Read this with a grain of salt because I haven't researched it but on the comment thread from an article on Seeking Alpha, one user commented that Scottrade was making a change to a their dividend reinvestment policy in 2013. Starting in February...
- Recent Buy - Compass Minerals International (cmp)
Wow three purchases in June. I think this is the first time I can remember making 3 purchases in a month since the beginning of my dividend growth journey. Usually I make 1 or 2 purchases but the money from the RAI merger along with the proceeds from...
- Healthy Gums And Teeth
This month my mom went to the dentist office because she thought one of her crowns was getting loose. It turned out it was not actually her crown but entire tooth got loose. So her dentist sent her to periodontist. We went to periodontist and he performed...
- Beet Roots, Sweet Potato - Healthy And Easy Way To Cook
So healthy, easy and taste good! I discovered that the easiest way to cook beet roots and sweet potato is to bake them. Just wash each root, wrap in a foil and bake until it ready at 375 F. I usually just check it with a fork. Add salt,...
- My Favorite Recipe For Homemade Bread In The Bread Machine
Here is my favorite recipe for Bread in the Bread Machine. I like to use my own recipe because this way I know exactly all my ingredients. 2 cups of flour ( I usually use half of whole wheat or add some rye flour) 3/4 teaspoon yeast 1 teaspoon...
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Salt, We Misjudged You – By Gary Taubes
THE first time I questioned the conventional wisdom on the nature of a healthy diet, I was in my salad days, almost 40 years ago, and the subject was salt. Researchers were claiming that salt supplementation was unnecessary after strenuous exercise, and this advice was being passed on by health reporters. All I knew was that I had played high school football in suburban Maryland, sweating profusely through double sessions in the swamplike 90-degree days of August. Without salt pills, I couldn’t make it through a two-hour practice; I couldn’t walk across the parking lot afterward without cramping.
While sports nutritionists have since come around to recommend that we should indeed replenish salt when we sweat it out in physical activity, the message that we should avoid salt at all other times remains strong. Salt consumption is said to raise blood pressure, cause hypertension and increase the risk of premature death. This is why the Department of Agriculture’s dietary guidelines still consider salt Public Enemy No. 1, coming before fats, sugars and alcohol. It’s why the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has suggested that reducing salt consumption is as critical to long-term health as quitting cigarettes.
And yet, this eat-less-salt argument has been surprisingly controversial — and difficult to defend. Not because the food industry opposes it, but because the actual evidence to support it has always been so weak.
When I spent the better part of a year researching the state of the salt science back in 1998 — already a quarter century into the eat-less-salt recommendations — journal editors and public health administrators were still remarkably candid in their assessment of how flimsy the evidence was implicating salt as the cause of hypertension.
“You can say without any shadow of a doubt,” as I was told then by Drummond Rennie, an editor for The Journal of the American Medical Association, that the authorities pushing the eat-less-salt message had “made a commitment to salt education that goes way beyond the scientific facts.”
While, back then, the evidence merely failed to demonstrate that salt was harmful, the evidence from studies published over the past two years actually suggests that restricting how much salt we eat can increase our likelihood of dying prematurely. Put simply, the possibility has been raised that if we were to eat as little salt as the U.S.D.A. and the C.D.C. recommend, we’d be harming rather than helping ourselves.
- Scottrade To Offer A Fee Free Semi-drip Plan?
Read this with a grain of salt because I haven't researched it but on the comment thread from an article on Seeking Alpha, one user commented that Scottrade was making a change to a their dividend reinvestment policy in 2013. Starting in February...
- Recent Buy - Compass Minerals International (cmp)
Wow three purchases in June. I think this is the first time I can remember making 3 purchases in a month since the beginning of my dividend growth journey. Usually I make 1 or 2 purchases but the money from the RAI merger along with the proceeds from...
- Healthy Gums And Teeth
This month my mom went to the dentist office because she thought one of her crowns was getting loose. It turned out it was not actually her crown but entire tooth got loose. So her dentist sent her to periodontist. We went to periodontist and he performed...
- Beet Roots, Sweet Potato - Healthy And Easy Way To Cook
So healthy, easy and taste good! I discovered that the easiest way to cook beet roots and sweet potato is to bake them. Just wash each root, wrap in a foil and bake until it ready at 375 F. I usually just check it with a fork. Add salt,...
- My Favorite Recipe For Homemade Bread In The Bread Machine
Here is my favorite recipe for Bread in the Bread Machine. I like to use my own recipe because this way I know exactly all my ingredients. 2 cups of flour ( I usually use half of whole wheat or add some rye flour) 3/4 teaspoon yeast 1 teaspoon...