Posted on 05/22/2016 8:43:07 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A low-salt diet could damage hearts, according to a new study published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet. However, that research is already under fire from medical investigators who take issue with the authors' methods and conclusions....
While our data highlights the importance of reducing high salt intake in people with hypertension, it does not support reducing salt intake to low levels.
(Excerpt) Read more at techtimes.com ...
Since the data draws on 300,000 people over thirty years your guess is as good as mine.
I’m guessing ordinary table salt.
Chemically, how is sea salt different than ordinary table salt from the grocery store?
Yep...so makes the study stupid
Maybe it’s a stupid study, however I’m making sure I get enough salt, as the alternative has proven deadly for many people.
How about you?
The "right amount" of salt, carbs, protein, fat all depends on you and your life style.
A good nutritionist or doctor can help but only about 50% of them know what they are doing.
Ignore anything the government tells you about diet. If their people were any good they would have real jobs.
Listen to your body especially when making any diet change and change only one thing at a time. Wait between 30 and 60 days before making another change.
Guess you haven’t seen my other posts about sole water and celtic salt...we eat lots of salt...salt with all the minerals intact....not white salt...eat lots of fat too...skinnier and healthier than I was 40 years ago, too
It isn't.
Table salt is mined salt which comes from old sea water. It is washed to get impurities out of it and iodine for health and a anti-caking agent is added so "when it rains, it pours".
Sea salt has traces of some minerals left in it but you would have to eat way too much of it to make in difference in your nutritive intake.
Sea salt has some iodine in it but not in the quantity needed by the human body. There has been an uptick in goiters and cretinism since sea salt has become a fad.
Use sea salt if you like, I certainly do, but you need to add in iodine from another source.
Someone should market a portable wrist computer for keeping track of all these conflicting and constantly changing dietary recommendations.
Albert doesn’t think your memory density will be high enough.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. A Einstein
Not just sea salt but the stuff from the Camargue or Himalayans or Celtic... You can see the different colors and sizes in it - the “impurities” make it healthier, probably other minerals mixed in, I don’t know. Chemical knowledge wise, I am inadequate to say how they differ. But a few grains on your finger in a taste test will tell you all you need to know. Your tongue will respond to one like it was tasting a good food and to the other like it was tasting a processed flavoring.
True about adding in iodine to sea salt...not true about the lack of minerals in salt like celtic sea salt
Believe it or not as you wish.
Better than zero in white salt
Thank you, what you posted confirms my own layman’s understanding.
I won’t disagree with your judgment on how food tastes with the other salts, but as Harmless Teddy Bear pointed out in post 47, those salts are the same chemical makeup as ordinary salt.
#42 sea salt comes from the sea and ordinary table salt comes from the ocean.....
I’m sure the homemade version of Chex Party Mix doesn’t have all that exotic stuff in it.
Well with an Enlarged Heart and Meniere’s low sodium is a must. Take in to much and you know it, dizzy spells (Meniere’s) swollen hands, feet and legs on the heart end.
As a Thyroid patient NO Iodine NO SOY. So Natural Sea Salt which is pink, light grey or grey is what I use, I find it salter and use less. My worse experiences are those hospital stays where I get stuck on Liquid OVER SALTED diets which I can’t eat. So I drink juice and water, have to have hubby bring me bottle water as I don’t drink melted ice taste nasty.
So yes, the amount of salt you take in does MATTER if you have a heart or other conditions that are effected by it. Sea Salt is better for you as you use less. Same goes for Butter, it is better for you than margarine which is barely digestible and you use less. You might get away with a few more mgs than your doctor orders, but not by much. The 1,500 mg was to low, about 2,500 mgs is about right with an occasional tad over. Once you get use to it, the over salted stuff does not taste right.
Ditch the sodas and help your stomach.
The heart doc just has me on Trimeterine/HCTZ water pill. Pain drives my BP more than any other thing does. And I live in level 8-9 pain due to totally degenerative back and Osteoporosis and OA. When I reach puke level it’s time to break out the pain pills for a day or two.
Had a bad reaction to 25mg of metopolol...rash...HIVES! Took a round of Predisone to undo the damage.
If you can afford it and like it, go for it. But it's main virtue is that it is salt and that is the same thing that the $0.99 box of salt has going for it.
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