Nutrition Part II: Salt Guidelines, pink salt, table salt
Dear All, Some viewers of InvestServ's Fit365 "What is Nutrition" video have asked me whether pink salt is better than table salt. I thought in this video I would talk about how you can decide if this is true.How to Figure Out If A Health Claim is True:You can go onto the website, www.pubmed.gov, which is a search engine from the National Library of Medicine and National Institute of Health. This search engine has an index of all the papers from 4,800 journals written in over 70 countries: if pubmed doesn't have a paper on your question of interest, then you can be sure that no good research has been done on it.Fit365's health claim that pink salt is healthier than sea salt is currently not backed up by any scientific literature. I have read previously that there are toxins in processed table salt--but the literature had no sources. I have not found any evidence that pink salt does not have the same toxins either -- please let me know if you have this information and I will be happy to post up a new video revisiting these comments.For more on this subject, please refer to:Mayo Clinic health letter [0741-6245] yr:2006 vol:24 iss:12 pg:8 For Salt Intake Guidelines, in general, a daily intake of no more than 4 to 6 grams of salt (2400mg of sodium) is recommendedFor more information: 1) The latest study from Harvard http://www.brighamandwomens.or... "Choose and Prepare Foods with Less Salt: Dietary Advice for All Americans" http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/co... idea behind these health videos:I'm a first year medical student here at the U.S.. Every day, I'm learning exciting and critical topics on medicine and health. But too often, the things I'm learning about never reach the public.I wanted to try an experiment -- sharing health information on youtube, with the sole purpose of trying to get more important health information to you all. Unlike some of the other health videos out there, mine are not about promoting a book, a diet, a pill, an agenda. I hope to answer your questions either through e-mail or through the video updates -- please, please, (please!) e-mail me any questions and I will try my best to answer them by asking my professors and by citing credibles sources (JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, etc...) e-mail: unitedstatesmedicalstudent@gmail.comI hope this experiment works -- and if it fails, I hope someone sees these videos, says, "hmmm, these are bad videos, but I love the idea," and decides to go for it._________P.S. I wanted to point out something important: I'm just a medical student, so my posts are hopefully conversation starters, but only conversation starters — not medical advice. If my posts intrigue you, please read more about the topic and discuss about it with your doctor. I'd be happy to send you the information in the journal articles I talk about. Also, the opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of Harvard Medical School, its affiliated institutions, or Harvard University. Best wishes!
Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: usmedstudent
Length: 05:12
Rating: 5.00
Views: 1444
Tags: fit365 fitness health library medical medicine national nutrition of salt student training usmedstudent
Video Comments
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parduspilot (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Is it true that the study only included the countries that supported the study and threw out just as many countries that didn't support the study. That was a critique I found about that study.
Razwell (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
usmestudentAre you aware that The Seven Countries Study does NOT support the Lipid Hypothesis? There was NO RELATIONSHIP between animal fat intake and CHD mortality WITHIN WITHIN NATIONS
aarongrubb (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
since the nutritional requirements of some minerals are very low, i believe, in theory, that the trace minerals in "real salt" may over time make a difference. although i, in all truth, lean towards your opinion on the matter since the mineral content in natural source salts is negligible. keep making videos.
usmedstudent (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Dear Urgelt and Csordie2000, Thank you for your reply! I also use sea salt. I am not concerned about sea salt but about how companies say it has healing properties; there are no studies to support it—not even in mouse models. I hope in the future to see a study on both products--table salt and sea salt for their toxicity profiles and healing properties. In general, I hoped to show in my video that by going onto Pubmed we can begin to figure out if a statement is true.
csordie2000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
check with people that sell natural salt, they will say their salt is healtyier. our blood they say is similar in minerals ratio proportion to sea water , urine,natural salt, not table salt. how can it not be healtyier. I pay 10 times more for natural salt and think it is ok considering we only use a couple of kg per year.
Urgelt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
A great resource, USMedStudent.From the reading I've done, I'll have to agree. Differences between salts do not appear to be nutritionally significant.I'll be seeing all of your videos as soon as I'm able.I'm very grateful that you are taking the time to post educational content here. Thank you! |
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