Yesterday I listened to the podcast by Tammy Lakatos Shames, RD, and read the transcript, and then went and found the research and read it several times. I noticed on the comments people were polarised either for it or against with only a few clever ones asking for proof, a lot of people quoted their life experience with salt, but you know 1 person n=1 means nothing in scientific circles, you need n=?,000,000,000,000 for it to be taken seriously, because if the study is big enough and free of bias and competing interests, and can be replicated it can then be extrapolated to the general population.
My concerns with this research is in reading the tables, low salt diet (LS), normal salt diet (NS) or high salt diet (HS) all failed to show any appreciable difference in the mice's weight gain. The researchers showed that the fat cells were enlarged, but as I read the research, the mice were free to eat as much as they liked, but at no stage did any group experience more weight gain than another group. The mice were placed 3 to a cage so competition for food shouldn't have been a big problem, and the project was measured at 3 weeks, 6 weeks and 9 weeks, with no explanation as to why the high salt group with larger fat cells did not gain more weight.
The statement was made that salt increases hunger and thirst so why didn't they gain weight, would the same thing happen with people?
If I have read this wrong or my interpretation is wrong please correct me.
Cheers
