Long term excessive salt will cause cirrhosis of the liver. Look it up.
Like everything else...
Anecdotal stories prove nothing and can be found as “evidence” for almost anything.
That being stated, mine is that I am almost 70, have been a salt-a-holic all my life, and my avg. BP is 117/75, and liver is tested regularly with no evidence of any issues ever there.......
Sure, excessive salt surely has a negative effect on some.
Everyone? I doubt it..........
1) Very few people ever track their salt intake.
2) Processed foods are loaded with salt for no other reason than to make them palatable.
3) The danger of excess dietary salt increases with poor health and increased age.
If you are young and in reasonably good health, you can probably go about your life and not worry about salt. If you are 50+ and/or have health problems and eat too many processed foods, you are going to regret not paying better attention to your salt intake.
High doses of daily salt intake lead to liver damage, puffiness of the face and eyes, as well water retention.
It can, combined with other bad dietary habits also result in hypertension.
The proof is when people reduce their salt intact and eat more veggies, those problems are alleviated.
I don’t care for salt ir at keast added salt.
My chicken comes soaked in a 15% brine from the regular grocery store. So I try to buy chicken that doesn’t come with salt added.
Also, don’t like Sex on the Beach or my Margarita with salt on the rim.
Never understood salt on watermelon and as a child at it the way God packaged it. Yummm!!!
Remember also that sodium comes in a lot of chemical combinations, which likely have very different effects in the body. A favorite example of this is common Chex Mix.
It contains “salt”, sodium chloride; “baking soda”, sodium bicarbonate; but also trisodium phosphate; disodium inosinate; and disodium guanylate. Other ingredients have some sodium in them as well.
1/2 cup has 2,400mg of sodium. A bag has 8 servings, or about 4 cups. So if you eat a whole bag, just 8.75 ounces, a little more than half a pound, you get 19,200mg of sodium.
That’s a tad much.
I have noticed a consistent increase in my blood pressure after eating high sodium canned processed foods like Chili and Ravioli. That is like 2000 mg of sodium for a can.
It typically goes up and stays up the day after eating it.
I noticed increasing or decreasing my salt intake did not affect my BP one wit.
A number of years ago, I was given a salt sensitivity test (twice, actually) at Cornell in NYC, and was told by the director of the clinic, Dr. Laragh, that, based on the test results, I did not have to restrict my salt intake.