Salt May Not Be a Demon After All

Med Page Today ^ | 1/19/15 | Sarah Wickline Wallan

[Boogieman]

Salt in pancakes?!?

I think I would have spit them out and just stuck with cereal :)

[Bobalu]

I use a lot of salt.
Can’t stand unsalted food...yech

[bigbob]

I remember those salt tablets too,came out of a dispenser in the locker room so you could take all you wanted. It was the trademark of being a jock :-)

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2131/what-would-happen-to-you-if-you-drank-seawater

[Boogieman]

“Sailors don’t drink salt water....that’s sure death.”

Well, if you only have salt water to drink, yes that is true. You will die from the dehydration. However, you can drink salt water and be perfectly fine, as long as you have fresh water to keep you hydrated.

I wouldn’t recommend it, as it tastes disgusting, but you could.

[Sacajaweau]

Let’s see....How many people are on diuretics??? That they don’t need.....

[USCG SimTech]

It’s all about the balance of the sodium-potassium pump. Look up sodium-potassium pump. 2.5 grams of sodium for every 4.5 grams of potassium for every (about) 3-4 liters of water. Any imbalance will result in inflammation which triggers any of thousands of conditions and diseases waiting at the ready for such an opportunity.

[Beagle8U]

The 4 main food groups...salt, sugar, grease, and alcohol.

[onedoug]

I ate with colleagues at a trendy Studio City bistro when the chef took issue with my wanting to salt “his” food. I insisted that as I was paying for it, it was mine. They gave me a saltshaker with some snide looks, and they were tipped accordingly.

[BikerTrash]

Yeah, I guess that would be an example of too much salt.

[boycott]

I believe if you try to restrict salt too much, you crave other foods with salt to make up for it. You often end up eating too much of the other foods. In a lot of cases, all these other foods make you fat and unhealthy.

[Red Badger]

Too much of a good thing can be dangerous to your health!.............

[C210N]

Not intended as devils advocacy, everybody has to know their body chemistries...

I know for a fact that I DO NOT tolerate normal amounts of salt. I therefore limit the amount. By experience, a few days with good saltifying of my foods will definitely put me with higher BP, and some unpleasant side effects.

Then, my daughter has natural low BP. She knows she has to add good amounts of salt to everything, and that works well for her.

[onedoug]

“If the salt loses its flavor....”

Would Jesus have known it was sodium chloride?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

WHAT DOES GRUBER SAY ABOUT THAT?

[Steve_Seattle]

"And Pure Cane Sugar from Cuba will also become the next best thing to give “long life”."

Good one. I can just hear it: "Cuban sugar is healthy and natural because it lacks the impurities of sugar grown under the auspices of corporate capitalist agribusiness."

[Idaho_Cowboy]

but I have never heard of anyone dying from it.

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Well you have clearly not heard of the traditional Chinese suicide by salt used by ancient Chinese nobility. If you eat about 2 pounds of salt if will kill you.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Just give me my grits, with butter, salt, and pepper!

[MaxMax]

I use Salt but some days during the summer I crave it. The body tells you
through craving, what you need.

[EternalVigilance]

We’ll just keep right on eating salt, and red meat, and eggs, and lard, and tallow, and butter, and fresh ground wheat, and fruits and veggies out of the garden.

Worked for our grandparents and great-grandparents, most of whom lived into their eighties and nineties and even, a few of them, beyond.

Seems to be working well for us, too. Everyone is very healthy, by the grace of God.

I do recommend using only sea salt, though. That stuff they peddle as table salt isn’t nearly as good.