Salt Linked To Autoimmune Diseases 308
ananyo writes "The incidence of autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes, has spiked in developed countries in recent decades. In three studies published today, researchers describe the molecular pathways that can lead to autoimmune disease and identify one possible culprit that has been right under our noses — and on our tables — the entire time: salt. Some forms of autoimmunity have been linked to overproduction of TH17 cells, a type of helper T cell that produces an inflammatory protein called interleukin-17. Now scientists have found sodium chloride turns on the production of these cells (abstract). They also showed that in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis, a high-salt diet accelerated the disease's progression (abstract)."
Everything good is bad for you (Score:5, Funny)
Salt, sugar, ethanol, nicotine, any food that isn't raw and tasteless--in an ideal healthy world, we would all eat a diet of cardboard and water and walk around flagellating ourselves all day.
Enjoyable = sinful = unhealthy
Eat well and die young (Score:5, Funny)
90 years of whole wheat is indistinguishable from death.
Sssshh! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Everything good is bad for you (Score:5, Funny)
I take this sort of story with a pinch of salt to be honest.
Doctors agree that healthy dietary salt intake... (Score:4, Funny)
...is somewhere between 0 and 100kg per day. Now we just need to zero in on the exact number and we'll be all set.
Don't believe everything you read. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:most salt is not real salt anyway (Score:3, Funny)
Because those folks are dying of diseases we already cured here. Stop the noble savage BS already.
Re:Everything good is bad for you (Score:5, Funny)
I have yet to hear any study suggest that sex is bad for you.
You're not visiting the right churches.
Re:Everything good is bad for you (Score:5, Funny)
It would be awful to die all alone like that though........
Re:The bottom line... (Score:4, Funny)
Sin and salt and ruthless efficiency!
Re:Too much salt (Score:2, Funny)
Zombies get their salt from the human flesh tartare they consume. Humans taste salty. Just ask any dog that is trying to lick your face, or a coyote that is gnawing on your leg.
Re:Everything good is bad for you (Score:4, Funny)
From Urban Dictionary:
Christianity
The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
Yeah, christianity makes sense.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=christianity&page=2 [urbandictionary.com]