[SoFloFreeper]

Do you hear that? LOW SODIUM LEVELS MIGHT BE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEART......

Just another reason to ignore the Obamas, the mainstream media, and the rest of the liberal establishment.

[Steve_Seattle]

I'm currently on the last day of a 10-day self-imposed diet in which I eliminated meat, fish, poultry, pasta, milk, cheese, butter, bread, pastry, potatoes, corn, alcohol, soda, coffee, tea, and fruit juice - all of the things I like. I've been surviving on fruit (mostly apples, bananas, and grapes), vegetables, Scottish oatmeal, nuts, water, lemon water, and tomato juice, and my daily calorie intake has been about 700-900, probably less than half of my norm. I've lost about five pounds. My only "wobble" was when my son took me to a basketball game and I had some movie-style popcorn.

Somewhat to my surprise, alcohol and soda are the things I've missed the least. Also pasta. I find myself imagining burgers and pizza and even a peanut butter sandwich (I love fat calories).

Also, to my surprise, I was not particularly hungry during this time - IMAGINING good food was far more difficult to deal with than actual hunger. I made no effort to reduce salt intake, but that happened naturally because of what I was eating and not eating.

[two23]

Ahhh..they changed their tune! Maybe salt really is bad and they are telling you it’s ok, because its better than draining gov’t healthcare and facing the death panels later on!
They want to usher out the baby boomers as fast as they can
/sarc

[Brother Cracker]

[BuffaloJack]

Sodium concentrations in the bloodstream are regulated by the adrenal gland. Sodium is an effect not a cause. Sodium in excess of what your adrenal gland regulates will just be removed in your urine by making you pee more.

[Vince Ferrer]

The movie Sleeper has one of the most truthful scenes ever filmed, when a man wakes up 200 years into the future and asks for food...

Sleeper Breakfast

[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.

[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.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

WHAT DOES GRUBER SAY ABOUT THAT?

[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.

[conservativesister]

This article made me pull out my notes from a 3 day homeopathic seminar on nutrition. The gall bladder regulates the sodium in the body and if yours has been removed it is important to drink celery juice to receive enough sodium. It is possible to reduce and soften gall stones and clean the gall bladder. The gall stones can be caused by a lack of sodium, caused by a gall bladder that needs a good cleaning of excess stuck bile.
What a vicious cycle!

[reed13k]

All things in moderation - pass the salt

[fwdude]

Besides, how are we going to ensure adequate intake of iodine? Eat seaweed every day?

[Graybeard58]

I follow my mother's diet, we eat whatever we want, whenever we want and in the quantities we want. One thing's certain, mom nor I will die young, she's 94, I'm 69.

It's all in our genes.

And I might add, neither of us is over weight.

[Graybeard58]

I follow my mother's diet, we eat whatever we want, whenever we want and in the quantities we want. One thing's certain, mom nor I will die young, she's 94, I'm 69.

It's all in our genes.

And I might add, neither of us is over weight.

[Chgogal]

Hey Government and Harvard Dumba$$e$, the Africans knew the value of salt centuries ago!

http://chnm.gmu.edu/fairfaxtah/lessons/documents/africaPOSinfo.pdf

Why was the salt-gold trade important? People from North Africa desired gold and people from West Africa needed salt. There was a place called Wangara to the south of Ghana that was incredibly hot. The Wangaran people lost so much natural salt through sweating that they had to eat salt in their daily diets to survive. Unfortunately they had no salt in their land. Gold is what the Wangaran people had plenty of, and they were happy to trade it to get the salt they so desperately needed.

[Caipirabob]

The food pyramid is a government lie. Diet is subjective to each individual’s metabolic and genetic disposition. There is no “one size fits all” diet plan. In fact, what the government promotes can cause as much harm as good. The overconsumption of carbohydrates promoted by the government is without a doubt a major culprit in the growth of obesity in a less active society.

[SamAdams76]

I'll always remember my grandmother, who passed a few years back at the age of 96 (she was born same year as Ronald Reagan). She was a Southerner and she started each day with biscuits, bacon and gravy. She would drink milk straight from the cow. Dinner was always fried something (usually fried chicken or catfish) with maybe a homemade peach cobber for dessert. She would guzzle gallons of sweet tea all day long with lots of sugar and take a belt (or two) of mason jar whiskey before turning in for the night.

She would always laugh at the "know-it-alls" who preached not to eat this or eat that.

[RJS1950]

No surprise. I’ve seen the studies come and go over the years and most of them are junk science; not all but most. Just like cholesterol in eggs, nitrites in bacon, salt causes HBP, stress cause ulcers; all just not true or gross generalizations on the general population.

I’ve always poured on the salt (a salt lick a day) and my wife would always work on me to cut my intake. When I kinda cut back; at my annual physical the doctor told me that the labs indicated that I should up my salt intake a bit. The wife doesn’t ask about it anymore.

[TalBlack]

I guess everyone has forgotten the recent study that showed that people self regulate salt intake no matter how haphazardly it was applied.