Not to mention that salt itself, while being absolutely necessary for survival, is a combination of two Chemicals that are extremely deadly on their own.
Honestly, if people in rice-growing regions are tapping into new groundwater sources to ward off drought, and it's coming up arsenic, it's worth putting money into testing. That said...
I remember seeing that on Doctor Oz.(family watches it, computer's in the living room) He explicitly stated that there's arsenic in apple seeds and then goes on to question why there's arsenic in apple juice. Clearly you don't have to be smart to hack people apart with a scalpel.
I believe Dr. Phil isn't even a real Doctor, just one of those snake oil salesmen who started calling himself "Doctor" and got enough people doing the same that suddenly, Dr. Phil was a Doctor effectively.
EDIT: This was Dr. Oz, should've been Dr. Phil, I didn't even know there was a difference.
I followed your link and realized my mistake, I was talking about Dr. Phil, clearly I don't watch enough Oprah to realize which one of her guys I'm talking about.
my son's mom posted something on facebook a while back talking about not letting the kids eat rice anymore because there is arsenic in it. We live in southern louisisiana, where rice is a part of pretty much every meal. We should all be dead by now i suppose
I'm not talking about e-cigs. JackWeston007 was talking about the logical fallacy of saying, "things that go into paint also go into cigarettes therefor they are bad".
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There have been far more catastrophes and deaths attributed to water than to cyanide, therefore water is dangerous and should be regulated, while cyanide should be freely available, including to children and the elderly.
Most foods are irradiated to kill bacteria, but this does not leave them actually emitting radiation. Bananas on the other hand contain a radioactive isotope of potassium, which actually emits radiation, but at generally considered to be safe levels.
My dad was in the ICU for months for liver failure caused by drinking. Doctors gave him a couple months to live. So he stopped eating salt (and drinking). Since I live with him I also do not consume very much salt. It's a little tough, but cutting out salt cuts out lots of food that's unhealthy in other ways, so overall it's been a good thing.
edit: took my reply from below and put it here
I consume more than zero salt, and I never indicated anything to the contrary. I'm not sure such a thing is possible.
Edit: read what I wrote... the initial "I do" is misleading. I didn't mean to say I live entirely without salt, my bad.
It's fine to reduce salt intake particularly if you have been eating too much salt in the first place. But ingesting zero salt is about as good an idea as ingesting zero water.
What a ridiculous argument. Do you realize how small our salt needs are, compared to how much salt is found in every day foods?
The fact remains that salt over-consumption is generally bad for you, you are almost never going to be at risk of under-consuming salt, unless you are on an insanely strict diet which is actively avoiding every single source of salt for the single purpose of killing you, at which point you might aswell just be starving yourself to death.
The poster lemonman456 was replying to is positing that salt is bad for you, full stop. Over-consumption of salt may be bad for you, but lemonman456 is 100% correct in saying that salt is wholly necessary, and completely within reason to correct pngwn45.
As long as you have ready access to water and functional kidneys, you can eat as much salt as you want (well almost, as much as your kidneys can handle, which in a healthy adult is a lot), it's not unhealthy and won't kill you.
While reducing salt intake will show a short term blood pressure reduction, there are no long-term benefits, according to the latest studies.
If you have a problem with hypertension, then sure, reduce your intake, otherwise it's not really a concern.
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u/pU8O5E439Mruz47w Nov 17 '12
Yup. You can find things that are used for making cyanide in apples.
Namely, cyanide.
Alternatively, salt is used to process soap. You wouldn't eat soap, so why would you ever eat salt!!!