Ping!
Whew.I’m safe then.
I knew my potato chip and beef jerky diet would pay off.
I couldn’t help but laugh out loud upon seeing the headline. Most of what they tell you about diet today is pure hogwash. The human body needs salt. This has been obvious for many, many centuries.
But hey! Gotta make room for more grant money!
AGREEED!!!!!!!!!!
Salt is crucial but throw out the table salt and buy unrefined sea salt that has all the minerals in it. It tastes fantastic and you can have as much as you want. In fact, you SHOULD consume at least 1/2 tsp in warm water every day.
Just what I’ve been telling my family and friends for some time.
Obviously too much salt is bad for you, but so is too little.
What I particularly miss is decently salted french fries, which I only eat occasionally anyway, and potato chips. They’ve been after the guys that cook or manufacture these things until they’ve rendered them virtually tasteless.
Great work, Nanny State!
One of the buried facts in the Framingham study, buried so the sodium wasting thiazides and their derivatives could be pumped into a billion dollar market.
And that global warming thingy.......?
This article is not credible.
first of all, people lie about what they eat when they are told to “limit” something. Second, people who are told to limit something in their diet are told to do so because they don’t have the sense god gave a turnip to figure out on their own to limit it BEFORE their health gets whacked.
I would submit to you that the average couch potato could not possibly consume too little salt. When I was a young kid and also well into in my 20s I actually didn’t like salt. I never salted anything and my mom cooked without salt. I never suffered any ill effects and I was so active I sweat from the moment I got out of the shower in the morning until I was asleep in bed at night...and that was just in the winter.
The primary means of losing salt is via sweating and urinating. If a sweaty kid who never eats salty foods can’t get sodium deficient then no one can.
the only POSSIBLE effect I MAY have had from a low salt intake was that I sweat 3 or 4 times more than the normal amount...and drank water like crazy.
The #1 cause of death is birth. Deal with it.
Sodium is an essential nutrient for all warm-blooded mammals. People used to learn that in basic high school biology classes.
Like every other liberal pop science fad, the low salt bs is killing people and bringing harm.
I would worry more about a diet low on potassium,
than a diet high on salt
All bets are off with kidney disease,
diuretic use, or congestive heart failure
But hyponatremia (low salt levels)
can be a particularly vicious finding
on the blood tests in the elderly
Yes! Vindicated! Just eat only natural foods and salt them yourself with sea salt. It’s so delicious. Stay away from packaged foods, because all the sodium in them doesn’t even taste good - it’s wasted sodium. Sprinkled on your veggies and meat at home, a good salt can be SAVORED and ENJOYED! Me loves my salt. Also, drink a ton of water.
Works for me.
I swear it wasn't more than a year later that the fanatics were after our salt again. So, I am not surprised by this study; but, I don't think facts matter to people who insist on inserting their theories into our lives, whether the theories are right or wrong.
I have always had some doubt about being fearful of salt, since we are salt-creatures. We are mostly liquid, and that liquid is salt water. Since our bodies are obviously created to handle salt, what is the problem. I'm not going to be installing a salt lick in our home or anything; but, I'm not going to stop cooking with salt either.
If we listened to all these (often contradictory) studies, we wouldn’t eat anything but rabbit food and the occasional piece of fish.
My (large) company and I’m sure most middle and larger companies spend a HUGE amount of money trying to get their people to eat properly.
The problem is that no one STILL knows what the hell that means. We’re told to cut down on salt...now we find it kills us to cut down. Similar could be said about many, many, things - like eggs, butter, etc.
My rule is IGNORE THEM ALL and simply try to eat reasonable (i.e., tastes good). But I do try to stay away from heavily processed stuff, as I have no confidence in them (like transfats...but they’re, thankfully, almost gone).
Also, didn’t Mayor Blumberg in New York start taking away salt from his ‘children’? I’d like to know his take on this article.
It would have been nice if they linked the original study. It would have been important to see how they dealt with selection bias.
Try salt that is not iodized, the iodine stimulates the thyroid and causes the high blood pressure, imho.