Weird Science Update

MSNBC reports the results of a study which question the heart benefits of a low salt diet. According to their report, while lowering salt intake will lower blood pressure, it raises cholesterol, fat, and other bad stuff in the blood. The study however had limitations which are not trivial. Here is the money quote:

Overall, the good and bad consequences of a low-salt diet may cancel each other out, so the diet has relatively little effect on the development of disease, said study researcher Dr. Niels Graudal, of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark.