Wait So?

I'm getting increasingly annoyed with 'studies' showing us how to live our lives, more over is the fact that said studies get reported as news before any conclusion is actually reached. It does raise a question over the nature of the institutions that release them and the journals that send out press releases, is it just the news papers bigging things up or are academics getting to keen on tooting their own trumpets in the pursuit of a few comlumb inches. Below we see how salt is simultaneously killing us and not making any difference to our lives.

Make your fucking minds up! Case in point comes from a third print you can read here at the Torygraph. Turns out that:

Prof Rod Taylor of Exeter University said the results of his team’s study published in the American Journal of Hypertension two weeks ago had been misinterpreted.
“We do not believe our results necessarily mean that asking people to reduce their intake of salt is not a good thing”, he said.

Someone here is dropping the ball, good and bad might be terms of moral ambiguity but life and death I feel has a little more certainty to it. Seems the crux is that Salt raises blood pressure, and high blood pressure is bad. Salt itself doesn't really matter at all. I propose the headline:

A HEALTHY AND BALANCED DIET & LIFE WITH NOT TOO MUCH OF ANYTHING IS DEFINITELY THE BEST WAY TO GO

And I didn't even have to do a study for that!