Having always been a person that adds salt to any meal until it 'tastes right', I had to have a laugh when I found out that reducing our salt intake to that of the recommended government guidelines, will actually reduce our life expectancy. It seems that science has been going in two different directions with this subject over the last 40 years. One school of thought that found a link between high salt intake and hypertension (you know - in the type of study where they feed rats 60 times more salt than humans would normally eat) as opposed to another school of thought that found heart disease patients had a higher mortality with reduced salt over time.
While more recent studies trying to link increased salt intake with poor health outcomes has proved "inconclusive" and "inconsistent", another set of studies trying to link the opposite ie. decreased salt with poor outcomes, seems to have found a much more consistent link. So, if your doctor has you on statins to reduce your cholesterol, low fat diets and reduced salt - what are you going to tell him on your next visit? If you don't believe me, Gary Taubes has written about it all here.
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WANTED - Medical Practitioner in the Taupo area. Applications are invited for the role of medical consultant to a fifty nine year old male. They would only be needed about once every five years for a medical check-up, or perhaps, on occasion, for a minor sporting mishap. Applicants should ideally have a good working knowledge of LCHF food requirements and not need to have it explained to them. They should, at the least, be as healthy and fit as I am - I would wish to avoid the irony of having to give them medical advice. During interview, applicants can expect to be tested on their knowledge of cholesterol and its role in nature, as well as the nature of statins and their role in society. Less than 100% in this test will disqualify the applicant. Please initiate your application in the comments section of this blog. (Medical practitioners reading this advertisement, who do not understand the requirements, are welcome to contact the writer for consultation - which can be provided at a modest cost, commensurate with their own charge-out rate.) Pictured at the right is an example medicine kit from someone on a post recently from Western Price Facebook page, asking, "What's in your home medical kit?" Well I had a quick browse through mine and produced this picture... With some people, coffee is regarded as an unhealthy food. In my case I make coffee with full cream and no sugar. It is what I make when I get up in the morning and I have no cravings for food during the day. In fact my energy levels are great all day and I can play 18 holes of golf then come home and make dinner for Chris and me. I suspect that having the fat in the form of cream in my coffee 'satiates' me and I'm probably living in fat-burning mode. While I can take or leave coffee, I do enjoy it with full cream (have done since I was a teenager), and since it usually is the only thing I have all day until my evening meal, I felt it an appropriate illustration for the site. ;-)
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Gregg SheehanProblem solver from way back. Currently working on the challenge of weight and health. Hence this website. Archives
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