{"id":1708,"date":"2009-04-23T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T14:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2010-10-01T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T15:07:28","slug":"common-salt-the-most-deadly-poison-in-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/04\/23\/common-salt-the-most-deadly-poison-in-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Salt &#8211; The Most Deadly Poison in Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Article on Salt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/huff-wires\/20090422\/us-med-cutting-out-salt\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the Associated Press article that breaks this startling news.<\/p>\n<p>The headline is &#8220;NYC takes lead in setting next food target _ salt&#8221;.\u00a0 In this article by Stephanie Nano of the Associated Press I find the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recent analysis showed that for every gram of salt cut, as many as 250,000 cases of heart disease and 200,000 deaths could be prevented over a decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I said in the title to this post, this must make common table salt the most deadly poison in nature.\u00a0 Imagine a gram of salt causing 250,000 cases of heart disease and 200,000 deaths. If the 1 gram of salt can be ingested over an entire decade and still cause this effect, you have to wonder what the 1100 milligrams of salt in a single serving of canned soup can do to you.\u00a0 How does anyone survive?<\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder who edits or fact checks these articles.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether this falls under <a title=\"Greenberg's Law definition\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=812\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Greenberg&#8217;s Law of the Media<\/strong><\/a> or not.\u00a0 This statement is so blantantly ridiculous that it cannot really be misleading.\u00a0 It just makes you want to laugh at the author and her editors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the Associated Press article that breaks this startling news. The headline is &#8220;NYC takes lead in setting next food target _ salt&#8221;.\u00a0 In this article by Stephanie Nano of the Associated Press I find the following statement: A recent analysis showed that for every gram of salt cut, as many as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-greenbergs-law-of-the-media","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4818,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}