OTHER ADVERSE EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT
DIETARY GUIDELINES ON HEALTH Decades of effort by government officials to reduce
salt intake by the U.S. population have met with limited success due to the natural
salt cravings that kick in when
salt intake is not
adequate.
THE CDC WEIGHS IN On June 1, 2016, the same day that CDC announced the new recommendations regarding the
salt content of processed foods, the agency published an article, «
Dietary Sodium and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Measurement Matters,» which was an attempt to discredit recent studies (including the Hamilton sodium studies) showing that sodium intake of less than 3 grams per day significantly increases risk of death and serious CVD events, and to support their contention that sodium intake of 1.5 grams per day is
adequate for adults.5