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Study: High Salt Intake May Directly Increase Risk of Obesity

3 pointsby jcrover 9 years ago

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jcrover 9 years ago
There&#x27;s been a ton of mostly lightweight, trivial, and linkbait laden media coverage [1] on this new research paper. I submitted the actiononsalt.org.uk url since Graham MacGregor is the Chairman of Consensus Action on Salt &amp; Health (CASH) group, as well as the author of the paper and a professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Queen Mary University of London.<p>The paper, &quot;<i>High Salt Intake - Independent Risk Factor for Obesity</i>,&quot; is published in the &quot;<i>Hypertension</i>&quot; journal of the American Heart Association which is sadly stuck behind yet another pointless science-killing paywall. Luckily, Graham MacGregor has made the paper publicly available [2].<p>I have no idea how this new research ties in with recent obesity research at MIT and Harvard [3, 4], but it&#x27;s interesting to ponder.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.actiononsalt.org.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;Salt%20in%20the%20news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;162494.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.actiononsalt.org.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;Salt%20in%20the%20news&#x2F;2...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolfson.qmul.ac.uk&#x2F;images&#x2F;files&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;Hypertension_article2.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolfson.qmul.ac.uk&#x2F;images&#x2F;files&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;Hypertension_...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mit.edu&#x2F;2015&#x2F;pathway-controls-metabolism-underlying-obesity-0819" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mit.edu&#x2F;2015&#x2F;pathway-controls-metabolism-underl...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10109775" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10109775</a>