Hi Everyone,

The salt war has come home.

Last week, Canadian Professor of Nephrology, Euan Carlisle, while responding to a question about the possible cause of the large number of renal failure cases in Guyana (at the opening of The Doobay Renal Centre), said that a contributing factor might be that our diets are loaded with too much sodium. Dr Carlisle hastened to add that he had not been in Guyana for a long period of time and had not carried out any formal research. He also added that sodium is not the only prime cause of renal failure.

Two days later, Demerara Waves, Caribbean News Now and other Caribbean online publications that attract a wide cross section of readers in and outside of the Caribbean carried a…..