Comments on: Hits & Misses – 2009/9/21 http://healthblog.ncpa.org/hits-misses-2009921/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Thu, 24 May 2012 02:53:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Larry C. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/hits-misses-2009921/comment-page-1/#comment-46376 Larry C. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:24:47 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=5469#comment-46376 There is obviously waste in Madicare. However, the health care "czar" Obama has chosen to get rid of the waste is the very same person who was running the program under Clinton. There is obviously waste in Madicare. However, the health care “czar” Obama has chosen to get rid of the waste is the very same person who was running the program under Clinton.

]]> By: Linda Gorman http://healthblog.ncpa.org/hits-misses-2009921/comment-page-1/#comment-46373 Linda Gorman Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:05:32 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=5469#comment-46373 The RAND study needs to be taken with a big grain of salt. NHANES salt intake estimates are derived from a 24 hour dietary recall interview. It then uses nutrient composition of foods from USDA to estimate sodium intake. As anyone who has had a middle school child that is forced to fill out one of those daily food diaries by a health class teacher, the sodium estimate can be wildly different depending on whether the soup the kid eats is canned, home made, canned low sodium, etc. Then there is a whole raft of studies that suggest sodium isn't a problem unless you already have one and that too little salt in one's diet also has risks. See Sandy Szwarc's round-up of sodium results at Junkfood Science. [http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/01/who-decides-what-you-can-eat-sating-on.html] Sodium. The next reason government needs to control what you eat for your own good. The RAND study needs to be taken with a big grain of salt. NHANES salt intake estimates are derived from a 24 hour dietary recall interview. It then uses nutrient composition of foods from USDA to estimate sodium intake.

As anyone who has had a middle school child that is forced to fill out one of those daily food diaries by a health class teacher, the sodium estimate can be wildly different depending on whether the soup the kid eats is canned, home made, canned low sodium, etc.

Then there is a whole raft of studies that suggest sodium isn’t a problem unless you already have one and that too little salt in one’s diet also has risks. See Sandy Szwarc’s round-up of sodium results at Junkfood Science. [http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/01/who-decides-what-you-can-eat-sating-on.html]

Sodium. The next reason government needs to control what you eat for your own good.

]]> By: Tom H. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/hits-misses-2009921/comment-page-1/#comment-46372 Tom H. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:51:18 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=5469#comment-46372 Like the spleen, I think the pancreas gets no respect. Like the spleen, I think the pancreas gets no respect.

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