Over at Deepest Health, I put up a guest posting on a Classical Chinese Medicine view of a modern disease process, Salt-Sensitive Hypertension. Below are the references I site in the work, in case you are interested in perusing them further. I welcome your comments here, or on eric's blog.
[i] Am J Kidney Dis. 2007 Oct;50(4):655-72. Pathophysiological mechanisms of salt-dependent hypertension. Rodriguez-Iturbe B, Romero F, Johnson RJ.
[ii] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertension
[iii] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr55/nvsr55_19.pdf
[iv] Kempner W. Treatment of kidney disease and hypertensive vascular disease with rice diet. N C Med J1944; 5: 125–133
[v] Nephrol Ther. 2007 Sep;3 Suppl 2:S94-8. Abnormalities of renal sodium transport and blood pressure sensitivity to salt. Burnier M.
[vi] http://duedall.fit.edu/ocn1010eng/jan27sp.htm
[vii] http://www.palomar.edu/oceanography/salty_ocean.htm
[viii] Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
[ix] Salt, Diet, and Health. MacGregor & deWardener. Cambridge University Press: 1998.
[x] Jones, E. The symbolic significance of salt in folklore and superstition. In: Essays in Folklore, Anthropology, and Religion. Vol. 2 Hogarth Press, 1951. London.
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