January 31, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
The news media's drawn some heat for its campaign to compare Barack Obama to John F. Kennedy. But maybe they were onto something. This week, President Obama made a decision rooted in a set of shared experience he has with...
January 31, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Okay, it's still early, but Junk Food Science has raised the bar in its report this week on "Who decides what you can eat? Sating on salt." Read it all. Twice. Noting that New York City has announced a campaign...
January 16, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
NHLBI scientists and their taxpayer-funded university researchers released a follow-up study for the important Trials of Hypertension Prevention trial. The authors claimed "a higher sodium to potassium excretion ratio is associated with increased risk of subsequent CVD (cardiovascular disease)."...
January 5, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
President-elect Barack Obama likes salt ... on caramel, at least. So reports the NY Times in a December 31 story "How Caramel Developed a Taste For Salt." Food technologists readily understand how salt makes sweet sweeter by masking bitterness, but...
