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The Mediterranean diet, again.

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For years, I have gone on record highlighting the benefits of the "Mediterranean" diet. This was no second or third party pitch I was making.  Having lived in Italy for almost 20 years, I have ample 'first-hand' experience of the...

Foods Standards Agency to be split up

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In a previous blog "Abolish FSA - Without Delay !" I mentioned that the new UK government was thinking of making major changes to the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Well, today, the UK government has ended speculation about the...

Dietary Guidelines Testimony

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On June 15, 2010, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that public comments would be accepted on the Report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010...

Will salt reduction promote cancer?

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Aldosterone plays a major role in the maintenance of electrolytes and fluid balance and subsequent blood pressure control. Epidemiological studies that explore the connection between hypertension and cancer have found a higher rate of cancer-related mortality in hypertensive patients...

Abolish FSA - Without Delay!

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In my recent blog, "Good Tidings ," I mentioned that Food Standards Agency (FSA) chief executive Tim Smith claimed that the UK has "turned the tide" on salt consumption, basing his case upon the disputed FSA analysis survey showing...

Coping with Winter

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During the current 90+ degree temperatures, it's a bit difficult to remember back to snow-zilla, our recent record-breaking 2010 snowstorm.  Many of us take mobility and roadway safety during winter for granted, yet without salt, we could not cope with...

Good Tidings

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Speaking to an audience of academics, government officials and World Health Organisation staff at a salt reduction forum in London, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) chief executive Tim Smith acknowledged that UK salt intakes were still well above its target...

Salt and International Trade

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The impact of salt on health has been reviewed on a number of occasions over the years with mixed results. The latest meta-review of the evidence was commissioned by the German Ministry of Health just last year and concluded that...

An infusion of reason

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People often ask me what the relationship between salt and blood pressure is.  Although a small number of individuals are sensitive to salt intake, most are not.  The problem is that it is difficult to demonstrate this in an easily...

Salt consumption

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Most salt reduction advocates maintain that we are eating more salt now than ever before in history. They don't have any data to back up this claim, but they were never particularly fastidious about getting real evidence. However, the question...