Posted on 11/10/2011 2:31:09 AM PST by globelamp
Cutting back on salt may not be as beneficial for your heart as once thought, a new study suggests.
While a diet low in salt reduces blood pressure, it increases the levels of cholesterol, fat and hormones in the blood that are known to increase the risk of heart disease, the study found.
Overall, the good and bad consequences of a low-salt diet may cancel each other out, so the diet has relatively little effect on the development of disease, said study researcher Dr. Niels Graudal, of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark.
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Moochelle Obama is causing heart disease!
Nanny State PING!
The French still harvest sea salt by means of salt ponds and channels set up for this purpose. The stuff they harvest is in large grains, and it comes out gray and moist.
What about iodized salt?
We use sea salt. You have to have salt in order for your metabolic hormones to work well. We also supplement with lugols for our iodine.
It figures. They use to tell me to brush my teeth up and down too.
Googling lugols (that is best done lugubriously) I see they talk about VERTICAL drops of the stuff. Does that work differently from HORIZONTAL drops?
He couldn't answer a word.
Yeah, that was the theory when I was a kid. You were supposed to push the tooth dirt towards the top of the teeth because it would come off better. It seemed that everything conspired to make home tooth hygiene as much of a nuisance as possible. And I had beaucoup cavities.
With years have come greater wisdom and a new set of dental theories. Now they say don’t worry about where you scrubbed it so long as you scrub as much of the surface as you can, then rinse well. And more tooth fairy points if you floss first since that gets out stuff brushing can’t, and the tooth paste helps get rid of the bits that got flossed out. The answer: floss and brush in the nightly shower. That nicely takes care of the inconvenience and mess, and look Mr. Dentist no cavities.
So long as you don’t do what one hijinxist did to me, and grab my upper lip and rub it back and forth over my teeth, saying this is what you do to dislodge the dirt. I nearly bit off that hijinxist’s head (I’m used to picking and the little whirly brush, but a lip grab?!?), and I never returned to her supervising dentist who got in a high dudgeon at ME for it. Who himself apparently quit that practice or was fired, because I never saw his name on mailbox stuffers for that office again. Didn’t matter, because I started going to a different office where they had a sane hygienist.
It can in principle be pushed to overdose, but no common food will achieve that in a person with healthy kidneys. You eat too much salty stuff, you will thirst until you’ve drunk enough liquid to dilute it to way below maximum safe levels.
Yes vertical contains more than horizontal.
Which is what I’d suppose, but again I’ve never seen a product that asks you to dispense it in horizontal drops. Isn’t vertical the only way you can get a drop, unless you have a gravity ray?
Gandhi made salt because the Empire controlled it.
Why?
And why is Sodium, Na, not Salt - NaCl?
Hmmm.
I ate darn near a whole 16” takeout pizza one night at a motel on a visit to another office of the business I worked for at that time, and was guzzling down water from the faucet for hours. Weird night, and unusually salty pizza.
>>From what I’ve been reading, what you want to eat is sea salt;
Probably for reasons “Any sailor worth his Salt” would have had intimate physiological experience with; and the sheeplefied, not so much.
My Russian great-grandmother regularly ate lemons (whole, including the peel) and salt... and lived to be 94 years young.
Hmmm.
Moochelle is a Scurvey Dog. She and her progressive health nuts can KMA.
>>Moochelle Obama is causing heart disease!
Moocelle’s been eating too much Saladin.
Every sunday morning I cook up a full package of bacon, and then I salt it and also with some course ground pepper.
And I swear I will be taking along a small salt shaker to the movie house, you have to actually ask for salt and they then reluctantly produce some.
>>You have to have salt in order for
>>your metabolic hormones to work well.
Uhuh. As the British Empire evidently knew damn well - when they were controlling the Salt trade and depriving their Indian subjects/slaves of it.
The appetite of tyranny is never far removed from the tyranny of the appetite.
you will thirst until you’ve drunk enough liquid to dilute it to way below maximum safe levels.
Not exactly.
“Salt is a solute, when it is concentrated inside or outside the cell, it will draw the water in its direction. This is also why you get thirsty after eating something salty.”
http://www.biologycorner.com/bio1/diffusion.html
Salt helps the body retain water — which is a good thing when the body WORKS and sweats as it was designed to; but in a society of obese and sedentary McSheeple... not so much.
What happens when Salt is concentrated inside the cell? It will cause the cell to continue to absorb water until either osmotic balance is established - or - Kaboom, the cell membrane explodes.
Bon appetit.
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