Thanks for the comprehensive reply, lowerbp2. I'll certainly
investigate the books you suggest. I knew that the correlation
between high pb and salt has been posed long ago by a Chinese man.
I'm trying to find out who the name of the modern physician (or
researcher) who first suggested that the correlation might not be
immutable but might be related to salt sensitivity.

--- In commonsalt@yahoogroups.com, lowerbp2@... wrote:
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> In a message dated 4/6/07 3:22:10 AM, sherefe@... writes:
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> > Having been married to a guy who salted food till it turned
white but
> > had normal BP, I questioned the mandatory correlation between
salt
> > intake and high blood pressure. I'm currently researching the
issue
> > of salt sensitivity and wonder if anyone knows who was the fist
> > physician or scientist who suggested it? I seem to recall seeing
a
> > doctor on TV and he subsequently got a lot of flack although the
idea
> > that some people are salt sensitive is fairly common now.
> >
> >
> > 1
> The Yellow Emporor about 1400 BC I think-"when too much salt it
taken the
> pulse hardens and strokes occur".
>
> Recommend you get and read Denton's Hunger for Salt and Guyton's
Textbook of
> Physiology for more background.
>
> RE the "normal" BP of your your salter friend. The higher the BP
greater
> this risk of stroke etc and this begins at least at a systolic of
117 mm Hg.
> Thus your friend might still be salt sensitive, as are all humans
if he lowered
> his salt intake enough. Have him try the DASH diet first, then
the Kempner
> rice fruit diet then a completeley salt free diet. Eventally his
BP will go
> down and he will die of sodium depletion. The goal of course it to
resume salt
> before that happens.
>
>
>
> May your pressure be low!
>
> Clarence E. Grim, B.S., M.S., M.D.
> Senior Consultant to Shared Care Research and Consulting, Inc.
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> Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology Med. Col.
WI
> Clinical Professor of Nursing, Univ. of WI, Milwaukee
>
> Specializing in Difficult to Control High Blood Pressure
> and the Physiology and History of Survival During
> Hard Times and Heart Disease today.
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