On 3/24/2010 4:26 PM, Dan Abel wrote:
> In >,
> "J. > wrote:
>
>> On 3/24/2010 9:34 AM, Krypsis wrote:
>
>>> Many factors can lead to a stroke. High blood pressure is however the
>>> most common.
>>
>> I figured you would say that. I guess that it's a relatively harmless
>> fixation as long as you don't try to impose it on others.
>
> I figured he'd say that also. I don't have a problem with it, either,
> since it's true:
>
> http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/str...ION=prevention
>
> "One of the most important things you can do to reduce your stroke risk
> is to keep your blood pressure under control. "

And so you're saying that Gene Scott would still be alive after ten
years with metastic cancer if he had cut out the salt?

> I think where people are having a problem with Krypsis, is in the
> insistence that sodium is the root of all evil. The cite above lists a
> whole lot of ways of controlling blood pressure, one of which is
> restricting sodium. Then the cite lists a whole lot of other factors,
> besides blood pressure, to consider in preventing strokes.
>
> Still, restricting sodium isn't a difficult thing to do, and the risk is
> pretty darned low. I'd call it negligible, in fact.
>