March 2010

• FDA should focus on real health priorities - 03/09/10
• Second controlled trial of low-sodium diet confirms health risk - 03/03/10

February 2010

• Salt industry productivity setting the pace - 02/24/10
• Food salt slugfest - 02/22/10
• In defense of science - 02/09/10
• The whole truth - 02/08/10
• Iodizing salt best investment to avoid a "poor start to life" World Bank - 02/02/10

January 2010

• Clear those sidewalks! - 01/07/10

December 2009

• Angels and Demons - 12/23/09
• FHWA report finds improvement needed for road weather performance management - 12/23/09
• "Climategate" and salt - 12/01/09

November 2009

• In defense of evidence-based health policy - 11/27/09
• Headline faux pas - 11/18/09
• US Preventive Services Task Force makes recommendation for radical change -- again - 11/16/09
• New York risks its greatest culinary achievement - 11/14/09
• A $22 billion lesson unlearned by China - 11/14/09
• Uncanny insight into this week's election - 11/06/09

October 2009

• Salt anchors healthcare reform - 10/30/09
• "The inevitability myth" - 10/29/09

September 2009

• Poetry, politics and policy - 09/19/09

August 2009

• U.S. salt industry weathers recession - 08/31/09
• Global Women's Crusade should feature iodized salt, education, fistula - 08/23/09
• The evil of stifling debate - 08/18/09
• Towards truth-telling - 08/06/09

July 2009

• Good news/bad news - 07/28/09
• Gov't advice to elderly on combating heat-related illness is incomplete (but politically-correct) - 07/24/09
• The more we learn, the less we know - 07/12/09
• Soak the poor - 07/10/09
• Health benefits lie in reducing calories, dwarfing any benefit of cutting sodium: study - 07/01/09

June 2009

• Eerie parallel between climate change and salt reduction - 06/26/09
• Canadian cardiovascular performance improves significantly - 06/23/09
• Prevention, yes, but one size fits all? - 06/20/09
• First global warming, now global calming? - 06/19/09
• WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety ignores safe roadway operations - 06/19/09
• Evidence trumps opinion - again - 06/01/09

May 2009

• Time to stimulate new directions to bail out failed dietary recommendations - 05/30/09
• Parting of the ways? - 05/23/09
• Diet and heart failure: more evidence against salt reduction - 05/15/09
• It's the diet, stupid - 05/09/09
• "What's really in many 'healthy' foods?" - 05/05/09

April 2009

• Iodized salt advocate honored with 2009 Pollin Prize - 04/24/09
• Evidence-based diet-heart disease study a model in avoiding biased dietary recommendations - 04/18/09
• Satin cautions IOM Committee on Strategies to Reduce Sodium to exercise prudence - 04/13/09
• Obama v. the bureaucrats. See you in court! - 04/11/09
• Facts undermine yet another pet federal priority - 04/08/09
• Good priorities for American public health - 04/04/09
• First "functional food" - 04/04/09
• German-based K+S buys Morton Salt - 04/01/09

March 2009

• Public opinion versus public interest: lessons for science policy - 03/31/09
• Smoot-Hawley II? - 03/28/09
• Wholesale returns of conjecture - 03/13/09
• How much does a snow day cost? - 03/02/09
• A strategic decision - 03/02/09
• Sodium Reduction and International Trade - 03/01/09

February 2009

• Of taste and tantrums - 02/28/09
• Algae power - 02/27/09
• Grading the evidence: key to understanding guidelines - 02/27/09
• Morality and diet - 02/26/09
• Politics in the guise of science - 02/25/09
• Tighten health claims the right way - 02/06/09

January 2009

• Testing the President for toughness - 01/31/09
• Best blog of the year! - 01/31/09
• NHLBI study exhonorates salt for cardiovascular disease. What, you didn't read that in the headline? - 01/16/09
• Salty and sweet for Obama - 01/05/09

December 2008

• Safe winter roads: worth fighting for - 12/10/08
• "Numbingly boring" salt can add 1 billion I.Q. points to human intelligence - 12/04/08

November 2008

• Dietary Guidelines and the conflict of interest - 11/14/08
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• Dietary Guidelines -- Science or Sham? - 11/14/08
• Plunging BDI could speed road salt relief - 11/13/08
• British consumers reject FSA anti-salt message - 11/07/08
• Good advice can be annoying - 11/06/08

October 2008

• (No) truth behind the headline that "fried and salty foods" lead to heart attacks - 10/25/08
• Surge of salt imports into New Orleans could set record: River Transport News - 10/20/08
• Return to salt-based economy to stabilize financial mess: Comedy Central - 10/14/08

September 2008

• 1st half US salt sales climb in tons, dollars - 09/25/08

August 2008

• New York City bids to become America's worst "nanny-state city" - 08/27/08
• And who said there was no "good news"? - 08/26/08
• Consumers lose interest in sodium labels on food - 08/11/08
• Choose iodized salt for brain development, not to prevent goiter - 08/08/08
• Aldosterone: Unlocking our understanding of cardiovascular risk - 08/05/08

July 2008

• Pesky data keep undermining the anti-salt argument: today's evidence - 07/31/08
• "Salt: the ultimate medicinal vehicle": American Geological Institute - 07/02/08

June 2008

• Socialized (junk) science - 06/20/08
• Good news is no(t) news - 06/13/08

May 2008

• Salt iodization, ending "hidden hunger," free trade are top ROI public health investments - 05/30/08
• Czech president could have been speaking about salt - 05/28/08
• Argue the facts when you have them; change the subject when you don't - 05/22/08
• Improving our Dietary Gudelines: start with process reform - 05/21/08
• Salt industry on course to break its historic worker safety record - 05/20/08
• Evidence mounts: low-salt diets confer no health benefit - 05/16/08

April 2008

• Let's look at the numbers! - 04/11/08
• Anticipating the unanticipated - 04/09/08
• Beware "scientific McCarthyism" - 04/09/08
• International Salt Symposium announced - 04/07/08
• Unbalancing the scales of scientific objectivity - 04/04/08

March 2008

• (Yet another) study finds no stroke benefit in lower salt diets - 03/28/08
• Not worth refuting? - 03/25/08
• Congratulations to Virginia DOT - 03/22/08
• Is lower better? Don't "treat the numbers" regarding dietary salt - 03/21/08
• Kids' salt craving is hard-wired - 03/17/08
• Salt industry sets worker safety record - 03/15/08
• Climate change to impact transportation, salt usage - 03/15/08
• Traffic safety AND mobility: dual imperatives, not trade-offs - 03/14/08
• Workplace productivity demands effective winter roadway maintenance - 03/03/08

February 2008

• Salt appetite found to be self-regulating - 02/29/08
• 2007 US salt sales jump 37% - 02/23/08
• Morton Salt's Glendale, AZ plant garners YouTube attention - 02/21/08
• Salt supplies Winter Maintenance podcast - 02/15/08
• Clearing winter roads costly; not clearing them even more costly - 02/15/08
• Eating iodized salt can add 10-15 IQ points to newborns' mental capacity - 02/08/08

January 2008

• Halotherapy at a "cave" near you - 01/30/08
• Global warming in China? The $3 billion snowstorm - 01/30/08