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Salt Institute

Dick Hanneman

The Salt Institute is the world's foremost source of authoritative information about salt (sodium chloride) and its more than 14,000 known uses. The Institute is a North American-based non-profit salt industry trade association dedicated to advocating responsible uses of salt (NaCl), particularly to ensure winter roadway safety, quality water and healthy nutrition.

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Recent blog posts from Salt Institute

"Salt: the ultimate medicinal vehicle": American Geological Institute

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Using as examples the role of salt in combatting lymphatic filariasis and iodine deficiency, the cover story of the June issue of Geotimes devoted six pages to "Salt of the Earth: the pubilc health community employs a mineral to...

Socialized (junk) science

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Health and nutrition activists are attempting to demonize all science not funded by (friendly) government bureaucrats.  This leads, inevitably and quickly, to politically-correct junk science. A related theme is voiced in an op ed piece from earlier this week in the...

Good news is no(t) news

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When it comes to fixing our nation's health care system, health outcomes are what matters. Except to the news media. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just issued the latest data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Its...

Salt iodization, ending "hidden hunger," free trade are top ROI public health investments

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For the past two years, more than 50 economists under the aegis of the Copenhagen Consensus have been studying the 30 most promising public health interventions to help policy-makers prioritize public health investments.  They filed their report today and issued...

Czech president could have been speaking about salt

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You've probably read press accounts of the attack on environmentalists levied by Czech president Vaclav Klaus at his National Press Club news conference yesterday.  Klaus, a renowned economist who has erected a thriving market economy on the ashes of his...