Survey On Pregnancy Outcomes

The Survey on Pregnancy Outcomes is sponsored by the Weston A. Price Foundation.

If you have given birth between May 1, 2010 and May 1, 2012, the Weston A. Price Foundation welcomes your participation in their survey.

The purpose of this survey is to collect information that can help the Foundation to determine how certain foods and supplements affect the health of pregnant mothers and their newly born infants, in the hopes of improving the experience of future mothers and the levels of health their babies achieve.

The Weston A. Price Foundation would like a large number of mothers with different dietary habits and different pregnancy outcomes to participate in this survey.

Whether you perceive your dietary habits as usual or unusual, and whether you consider your pregnancy to have been eventful or uneventful, they would welcome your participation.

If you choose to participate, the Pregnancy Outcomes Survey should take less than twenty minutes of your time to complete.

The Weston A. Price Foundation will then incorporate the information you provide into statistics to eventually publish, but will not, in any way, publish your name or personal information, nor will they share your name or personal information to anyone publicly or privately.

If you would like to participate in this online survey, please do so by September 30, 2012.

TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS SURVEY, PLEASE VISIT:  Survey On Pregnancy Outcomes

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Dangers of Salt Restriction - Weston A. Price Foundation Warns FDA

The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) has warned the FDA that plans for salt restriction pose a health threat to Americans of all ages.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has entitled their document, "Approaches to Reducing Sodium Consumption," which signals to us, the American people and to the WAPF, that the FDA has already decided, our sodium intake should be reduced.

According to Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, "A study from 1991 indicates that people need about 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt per day, anything less triggers a cascade of hormones to recuperate sodium from the waste stream, hormones that make people vulnerable to heart disease and kidney problems.  This is proven biochemistry.  Yet, FDA as well as USDA want to mandate drastically restricted sodium consumption at about 1/2 teaspoon per day."

Testimony from the Weston A. Price Foundation noted that salt plays a critical role in body physiology and brain function.  In the elderly, lack of salt is associated with increased hip fractures and cognitive decline, low salt in growing children predisposes to poor neurological development.

Recent studies, according to "Food Salt Essential to Life, Health" show a correlation of salt restriction with increased heart failure and with insulin resistance leading to diabetes.  Studies show that even modest reductions in salt cause an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.  Higher incidence of inflammatory markers and altered lipoproteins are also found by researchers evaluating those on salt reduced diets.  These factors are precursors to metabolic syndrome, which predicts heart problems and diabetes.

The elements in salt, sodium and chloride, form the basis of cellular metabolism, they are needed for digestion.

"Our biggest concern is that with FDA dictates against salt, manufacturers will add imitation salt flavors, like Senomyx to processed foods," says Fallon Morell.  "Marketed as a food, so it does not require testing, and added in amounts so small that it does not need to be labeled, this compound can interfere with our natural taste for salt, leading to severe deficiencies, or, people will become obese as they eat more and more, trying to satisfy the body's need to eat."

Source:  Globe News Wire

Morton Satin of the Salt Institute presents peer reviewed science on the dangers of salt restriction, that the USDA Dietary Guidelines ignore.  Morton spoke at a press conference February 14, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.




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