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Putting the B in BP control for women

I've written in my newsletter about the proven links between folic
acid (folate) deficiency and disease — specifically Alzheimer's
and cancer. In case you haven't read any of those articles, suffice it
to say that I'm a big fan of daily supplementation with 800
micrograms or so of folate, for many reasons regarding your
health…

And it seems at least some in the mainstream now agree with me
about this crucial B-vitamin, if the latest research presented to the
American Heart Association means anything.

According to a large-scale study formally unveiled at the AHA's
annual High Blood Pressure Research Conference, researchers
have discovered that women (especially young women) who
consume 800 micrograms or more of folic acid daily slashed their
risk of hypertension by 33% over those consuming less than 200
micrograms of folic acid per day. Not a bad reduction, huh?

Many women's health experts have long recommended folic acid
for younger women because it has been proven to reduce the risk
of birth defects. However, this powerful B-vitamin's effects on
blood pressure have heretofore remained undocumented, at least to
my knowledge.

The study included more than 150,000 women between ages 26
and 70 — and although younger women showed the most dramatic
benefits, subject women in the highest age brackets also enjoyed a
13% reduction in hypertension risk from consuming adequate
amounts of folate. Whether or not daily folate consumption helped
men dodge the hypertension bullet, the study did not conclude, or
even measure, apparently.

So, where can you girls get folate?

Fruits (especially tomatoes—yes, they're a fruit), beans and other
legumes, and green leafy vegetables like spinach (don't overdo it,
though). Also, you can choose from a great number of folate or
folic acid supplements on the market. You can get them at grocery
stores, health-food stores, or through the mail.

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Challenging the salt stigma

Try as I might, I've never been able to make much of a dent on the
mainstream's maligning of salt.

Even though I've shouted at the top of my lungs that salt does
NOT cause high blood pressure except in a very small percentage
of people who are abnormally salt-sensitive (Daily Dose,
8/8/2003), the mainstream continues to portray sodium as a killer
to be shunned at all costs. And with today's ridiculously low
guidelines for "high" blood pressure — anything over 115/75 is
considered elevated — there's no reprieve in sight for salt.

But some recent European research has concluded that an extra
pinch or two of salt per day can help the elderly to stay healthy —
and that fully 10% of older folks suffer from a sodium
DEFICIENCY! This lack of sufficient daily salt can cause
nervousness, hallucinations, muscle cramps, and even urinary
incontinence.

This, amidst a UK-wide drive to reduce salt in Briton's diets!

In fact, according to a recent Nutraingredients online article, the
UK's Health Minister, Melanie Johnson, rejected a June proposal
from Britain's major food producers to reduce levels of salt in food
— for not being stringent enough! Instead, she issued more than 20
of Britain's food giants a September ultimatum to reduce the
"unacceptably high levels of salt" in their foods.

I guess it takes more than direct scientific evidence to shake the
"salt stigma" in the hallowed halls of parliament, huh? Perhaps she
was suffering from a low-sodium-induced hallucination...

The campaign against salt — and the continuing misinformation of
the public about sodium and high blood pressure — is no less
militant on these shores. I'd hoped that after the last round of
downward revisions in the already absurdly low blood pressure
standards, people would have started to question the conventional
wisdom on the topic.

Instead, we seem content with today's most popular salt substitute:
Hypertension drugs.

Here's one salty dog who never substitutes for the truth,

William Campbell Douglass II, MD

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