re: Take the Latest Low Sodium Advice With a Grain of Salt, Part 2

artcalight — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:48:34 GMT

For an article that aims to pick apart assumptions, I am surprised at your including the statement that "African-Americans tend to be salt sensitive." That's a myth for at least two reasons. First, "African-Americans" are a very heterogenous group. A person categorized as "black" in the U.S. can be categorized as "white" in Africa or "brown in South America. Second, whatever research that was done that led to that assertion has to be faulty scientifically, since using race as a variable in any medical research has been roundly criiticized by many as bad science. Third, the sat sensitive myth is based on the even more egregious "salt and slavery" myth which keeps rising its nasty head no matter now many times responsible researchers whack it down.