[HN Gopher] Adding salt to food at table can cut years off your ...
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Adding salt to food at table can cut years off your life, study
finds
Author : yamrzou
Score : 15 points
Date : 2022-07-11 19:04 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| mrkramer wrote:
| I know but salt is so tasty :/
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| Especially salted meat or French fries.
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| biomcgary wrote:
| From the article: "The study did not definitively rule out other
| factors, such as salt consumption being a proxy for a generally
| less healthy lifestyle,". In the list of things that they
| corrected for neither education or income were included.
| Education is correlated with income and probably with reduced
| salt intake. Income is roughly anti-correlated with stress. So,
| my guess is that this result wouldn't hold up with a few more
| pertinent corrections applied.
| Mo3 wrote:
| Yup. Back when I was smoking cigarettes I used to pour salt on
| anything - and funnily enough a huge percentage of smokers does
| the same, no idea why.
| pwdisswordfish0 wrote:
| In case that wasn't rhetorical, AFAIK smoking is known to
| dull one's sense of taste. I would imagine smokers to be less
| picky eaters and drinkers for this reason as well.
| Mo3 wrote:
| It surely is, but I believe it has less to do with sense of
| taste. There's a very weird, intangible correlation between
| smoking (and afaik, drinking) and favouring salty food. Not
| as in, a little bit saltier just to taste it, but actually
| _salty_. There 's a few studies around with inconclusive
| results but they usually always reach the conclusion that
| salt/sodium intake is dramatically higher in smokers and/or
| drinkers, but no further conclusions as to which other
| factors come into play besides nicotine reducing the ion
| current mediated by the epithelial sodium channel.
| Although, admittedly, I didn't look further since because I
| stopped smoking anyway.
| constGard wrote:
| I feel like almost anyone else on here could say this, but
| correlation is not causation, especially in these large
| observational studies. Abstaining from salt in your diet is
| unusual and likely accompanies other factors that could impact
| your longevity.
| iorek_dev wrote:
| From the article:
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| > This does not include seasoning during the cooking process.
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| It just means to not add a salt shaker on the table, not
| "abstaining from salt in your diet".
| im3w1l wrote:
| It's very mysterious how the chemical properties of the table
| salt shaker differs from the seasoning.
| feet wrote:
| It's rather the amount and perception of amount added.
| Usually in recipes while cooking, the amount is more
| controlled and distributed throughout the dish. Adding
| further salt adds more uncontrolled variability to the
| sodium intake in ones' diet
| iorek_dev wrote:
| I think there is more than the amount. Salt is a taste
| enhancer when you cook with it, added to the table it
| just add a salty taste to your plate.
| cphoover wrote:
| The original commenters point still stands though right?
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| Also isn't addition of salt often a sign the chef/cook messed
| up and under-salted a dish?
| iorek_dev wrote:
| >The original commenters point still stands though right?
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| Yes!
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| > Also isn't addition of salt often a sign the chef/cook
| messed up and under-salted a dish?
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| Being a question of taste, literally, it is a subjective
| question. IMO you should respect the choice of the
| chef/cook, and if we are only talking of the "messed up"
| dishes, then I hope the cook dont mess up that often that
| is justify to add a salt shaker on the table.
|
| On the other side you have people that add salt to every
| dish, and this before tasting it, those one are on the dark
| side!
| outsidetheparty wrote:
| As is usual for science reporting, the actual study's claims are
| much more modest than the news headline suggests, and indeed only
| claim a correlation: "Our findings indicate that higher frequency
| of adding salt to foods is associated with a higher hazard of
| all-cause premature mortality and lower life expectancy."
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| https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.10...
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| vgeek wrote:
| What about MSG?
| solarkraft wrote:
| I'll leave the discussion about correlation vs causation to
| others, I'm just here to add that the new German health minister
| Karl Lauterbach somewhat infamously fully abstains from added
| salt in his food to the point of having extra stuff prepared for
| him at gatherings.
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| https://www-deutschlandfunknova-de.translate.goog/beitrag/sa...
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| He's a bit like a Richard Stallman for salt.
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