Don’t Sweat Salt
UC Davis nutrition researchers are challenging the decades-old conventional wisdom that we should watch our salt.
The controversial article, published this week in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, found that humans naturally regulate their sodium intake, rendering government intervention useless.
“Our sodium intake is regulated by the brain, and your brain won’t let you go very far outside of that boundary,” McCarron said. “You may eat that whole bag of chips, but it just means that as you sit down you’ll unconsciously go toward foods that are lower in sodium.”
Source: Don’t sweat your salt intake, UC Davis study says
