{"id":5896,"date":"2015-02-10T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5896"},"modified":"2015-02-10T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:00:15","slug":"pass-the-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/02\/10\/pass-the-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass the Salt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/02\/10\/pass-the-salt\/wainford-richard\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5918\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/02\/Wainford-Richard-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Wainford, Richard\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5918\" \/><\/a>BU Today<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pm\/faculty\/faculty-profiles\/richard-d-wainford-ph-d-assistant-professor-of-pharmacology-and-medicine-division-of-cardiovascular-medicine\/\">Richard Wainford<\/a>, PhD, pharmacology<\/h4>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it: salt is delicious. Sprinkle it on tomatoes and they pop with flavor; shake it over popcorn and it\u2019s movie time. Even Nelson Mandela noted its worth in his inaugural address: \u201cLet there be work, bread, water, and salt for all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>Expert quote:<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cSomething has got to be working in your body to get rid of that salt,\u201d says Wainford, who heads a laboratory at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-wci\/\">Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute<\/a>. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what that is. So if we don\u2019t know what\u2019s working in a healthy patient, how can we expect to fix something when it\u2019s broken? That\u2019s where I come in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/pass-the-salt\/\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU Today Richard Wainford, PhD, pharmacology Let\u2019s face it: salt is delicious. Sprinkle it on tomatoes and they pop with flavor; shake it over popcorn and it\u2019s movie time. Even Nelson Mandela noted its worth in his inaugural address: \u201cLet there be work, bread, water, and salt for all,\u201d he said. Expert quote: \u201cSomething has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126],"tags":[149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}