Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Another URL for Salt Sensibility blog

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We've moved again. Follow us at http://www.saltinstitute.org/News-events-media/Salt-Sensibility.
Monday, June 11, 2007

Jump to SaltSensibility, the Salt Institute's blog

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I'm amazed. I've stopped posting to this blog and switched to one hosted on the Salt Institute website -- about 20 months ago. Yet...
Friday, July 21, 2006

Frugal Baby Tips: Miscellaneous_: Salt!

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Frugal Baby Tips: Miscellaneous_: Salt!
Saturday, March 25, 2006

Salt Sensibility has a new home

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Salt Sensibility has become the harbinger of a series of RSS feeds now hosted on the Salt Institute's webserver. Salt Institute members...
Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Overturning political correctness in medicine

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Yesterday and today, many of the nation’s leading scientists and experts on women’s health met at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in...
Tuesday, February 28, 2006

March is National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month

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Many people refuse to accept that "chronic fatigue" is more than not getting enough sleep or an affectation of the lazy. They...
Friday, February 24, 2006

Science journals delivering "political science"

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If you've agreed with several posts on this blog expressing concern about manipulating science, you'll likely enjoy Michael Fumento...
Thursday, February 16, 2006

Snow on the roads? There oughta be a law

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It's no secret: while most folks see a snowstorm as white -- and an inconvenience if not a threat to their driving safety -- those of us...

Calcium and health outcomes

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Today's New England Journal of Medicine reports the second major health outcomes study in a week from the massive Women's Health In...
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Diet foods: do they lead to healthier diets?

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Today's Food Navigator reports: "Obesity rocketing despite record diet food spending." The headline is for Europe, but descri...

When the facts contravene conventional wisdom, go with the anecdotes?

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I loved this quote from Gina Kolata's news analysis column in today's New York Times entitled "Maybe You're Not What You ...
Sunday, February 12, 2006

Free trade "protects" niche salt market

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The NAM's blog headlines " Margarita Lovers, Rejoice " and their story reports agreement by Mexico to allow bulk imports of te...
Saturday, February 11, 2006

Snow's coming (finally)

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Winter started out right in the DC area in December, but disappeared entirely in January. It's back, forecasters tell us. Appropriatel...
Friday, February 10, 2006

Low-fat diets lose luster (low-salt too!)

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The front pages have been crowded with this story, blogged earlier here , and now the editorial writers are beginning to grasp the breadth o...
Thursday, February 09, 2006

Dominoes: fat, salt

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Until yesterday, everyone "knew" that low-fat diets were the cornerstone of a healthy diet. Publication in the Journal of the Ame...
Saturday, February 04, 2006

Brit anti-salt ad campaign admits to ad standard violations

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The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has chastised the government's Food Standards agency for misleading anti-salt statements b...
Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Replication: "the ultimate test of truth in science"

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So says Dr. Donald Kennedy, the editor of America's foremost scientific journal, Science , in an article in yesterday's New York Ti...

Iodized salt boosts brainpower

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The Economist recently ran a story on "Diet and the unborn child" emphasizing the importance of omega-3 fatty acids in fetal deve...
Tuesday, January 31, 2006

New? DASH Diet??

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Talk about misbranding! In 1997, the federal National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)-sponsored Dietary Approaches to Stop Hyperten...
Saturday, January 14, 2006

Tao of the Dow

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The salt industry shares with other engines of the economy the role of adding value to our common enterprise -- our products, jobs/wages, an...
Friday, January 13, 2006

The Challenge of Winter Roadway Operations

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Shameless plug: the Salt Institute's new Salt and Highway Deicing newsletter is now available online, discussing the important differen...
Saturday, January 07, 2006

Is science hopelessly politicized?

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Reasononline’s science correspondent Ronald Bailey’s Jan. 6 post revisits the issue of objectivity/politicization in science, asking: “Has s...
Friday, January 06, 2006

Mere Magazines

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Still catching up from the holidays. A Dec. 30 commentary in the Wall Street Journal made much the same point in the Vioxx debate as raise...

Thoughts on congestion

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I've just received the Fall 2005 issue of Access , the newsletter of the University of California Transportation Center. This edition i...
Friday, December 23, 2005

Blood pressure key: overcoming mineral deficiencies

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Reiterating a point the Salt Institute has raised for years, this December 14 post by NewsTarget.com explains the growing medical view that...

Sea salt is not a good source of dietary iodine

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As one navigates cyberspace learning about salt, sometimes misunderstandings, through repetition, seem to endow erroneous claims with an unw...
Thursday, December 22, 2005

Salt: Its role in preventing global warming

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If "Meridional Overturning Circulation" isn't a familiar term, perhaps the more popular concept of the "conveyor belt...
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Scientific fraud and public health lunacy

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Two articles in recent days in New York City newspapers caught my eye. On Dec. 16, the New York Post ran an op ed by Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, ...
Saturday, December 17, 2005

The cost of Christmas

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I couldn't resist. This isn't salt-related at all unless you stretch and say that everyone "worth their salt" gives gifts...
Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Consumers ignorant of first functional food: salt

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Marketers would have us believe that the self-selecting online community is composed of above average intelligence information sponges, perh...
Monday, December 12, 2005

Vioxx lessons for salt controversy

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Everyone's afternoon's headlines report a mistrial in the Merck Vioxx case. A few days ago, the New York Times and the Wall Street...
Saturday, December 10, 2005

Preventing heart attacks

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Most readers probably heard about the death this past week of former South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell, an exemplary political leader. T...
Friday, December 09, 2005

Winter's snowy start

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The Chicago Tribune reports the Windy City is off to its snowiest start in 27 years. Commute times in normally-excellent-snowfighting Chic...
Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Washington wake-up call

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Winter's here. No matter your politics, the Washington Post got this story right. The DC metro area was blanketed with 3-5 inches of ...
Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Scientists sequence genome of salt-resistant bacteria

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For millenia, until the dawn of refrigeration a century ago, foods were salted for preservation because massive dosage of salt will kill bac...
Sunday, December 04, 2005

Snowfighting a late arrival in Asia

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Every year we're flooded with calls from areas of the U.S. where winter ice storms inflict unexpected carnage and paralysis by overwhelm...

Salt's a bargain

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Last week, Democrats in the U.S. Senate garnered only 34 votes in favor of punitive measures against alleged excess profits by oil companies...
Thursday, November 24, 2005

DASH for Thanksgiving

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As we gather our family today for Thanksgiving (ten of us together this year, spanning four generations), we have much to be thankful for. ...
Saturday, November 19, 2005

Cellini salt cellar makes Most Wanted List

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To the right is the famed $55 million gold, ebony and enamel salt cellar created by the noted Renaissance master Benvenuto Cellini. In May ...
Friday, November 18, 2005

HOW we lose weight (and lower blood pressure) really matters

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Last month, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an issue that featured the revelation that gastric bypass (bariatric ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Salt saves lives on winter roads

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“If a car slips on ice, intelligent (roadway) systems could not only inform other drivers but send a notice through the receivers alongside ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Sorting out salt and health issues

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Today's Tech Central Station has a great article by author John Luik entitled " A Grain of Salt " that summarizes the ongoing ...
Saturday, November 12, 2005

Fall Colors: Art on the Net

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Many artists use salt as their expressive medium. Take, for example, the "Salt Queen," Italian artist (and Long Island dweller) B...
Thursday, November 10, 2005

Qualified health claims quagmire

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Twice in the past two weeks, the Food and Drug Administration has shown why it may have the second toughest and important job in America (af...
Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Measuring kosher salt

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What is it they say about great minds? This morning's Washington Post addresses a topic close to my post last evening -- measuring qua...
Tuesday, November 08, 2005

How many jelly beans are in the glass jar?

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You've all seen contests where people are asked to guess how many jelly beans are in a glass jar. Amaze your friends with this alternati...

Get a fact-checker!

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The nutrition nannies at the gratuitously-self-named Center for Science in the Public Interest are at it again. Denied in court, they today ...

National Journal Blogroll notices Salt Sensibility

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Today's National Journal Blogroll features a story about how manufacturers are initiating blogs and mentioning this blog.
Monday, November 07, 2005

Prioritize highway operations, not construction

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With extraordinary federal spending requirements for such emergencies as the several devastating hurricanes and the war on terror, Congressi...
Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Inches and miles

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In a play on "give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile," this week's media brought news that the level of the Great Sa...
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

DASH for health

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Today's Washington Post carries a reminder that the DASH Diet, high in fruits, vegetables and dairy products, provides vital potassium ...
Monday, October 31, 2005

Consumers confused about health claims

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A new FDA report says consumers are confused about the "health claims" made on food labels. FDA's been trying to balance ...
Saturday, October 29, 2005

Here we go

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Has anyone seen any research on a question that seems it MUST have been studied? While human societies have been consuming the same amount ...