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by gojomo 5380 days ago
Um, why the giant copy & paste?

What would have been wrong with a clickable link (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/salt/jama-sodium...) and small salient excerpt?

Also, this Harvard article is strictly raising concerns about a May 2011 JAMA paper. The Scientific American 'End the War on Salt' article also relies on a "meta-analysis of seven studies" published in July, and talks of another 11-trial review of the effects of sodium-intake-reduction in 2004.

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The SciAm article makes it sound like there is literally no scientific support in "the war against salt." This article pretty clearly claims exactly the opposite, so it makes a good counterpoint even if it was published before the most recent study.

>Um, why the giant copy & paste?

When I click on that link, a registration thingy pops up. You can dismiss it, but OP might have thought registration was required.