My god. That’s a recipe for salt overdose!
I have moderately high blood pressure and take a moderate daily medication. I try to eat a relatively low-salt diet, but not extreme.
So I read this article with intense interest and I will now rate this article and this study in terms of adding to my personal understanding of the subject:
0.0
Having lived through two massive heart attacks, my heart doctor told me to lower salt, and if I were to use little salt to use ‘sea salt’....things have been great, HDL’s are great; Blood Pressure is great; my diet consists of chicken, fish, veggies (fresh) and fruits (fresh) no sweets, coffee, teas, sodas...milk, water...
WHAT KIND of SALT? Table salt is bad...Celtic Sea salt, Himalayan salt good for you. Table salt has had all the good minerals processed out and iodine added back in. Any study that doesn’t tell the KIND of salt is worthless.
Here we go again!
-———”Studies now show” -———
I haven’t read the article yet, but again, I’d want to know who has an agenda this time.
Four basic food groups:
Fat
Grease
Salt
Sugar
If I don’t get enough salt I feel ill. I have chronic low blood pressure. I love just eating a pinch of kosher salt. Smoked salt is yummy.
A couple days later I ended up going to the emergency room at my local hospital. They did blood work on me. Found out that my sodium, magnesium, potassium levels were all very low, and that my electrolytes were all messed up. They admitted me to the hospital immediately, started me on IV's and I had to take massive doses of magnesium and potassium to get my levels back up. All those symptoms I had were because my chemical levels were so low. They kept me in the hospital for two and a half days. They told me to stop taking the prescribed diuretic and potassium tablet I'd been on for over 30 years. As they explained to me, since I wasn't taking the diuretic anymore, I shouldn't need the potassium, as too much potassium is as bad as too little. It took me a while to regain my strength after I came home from the hospital, but I've been good for a while now, and am at least aware now of the symptoms for low sodium, etc.
In all fairness, the body is usually pretty capable of managing its essential electrolytes. The primary ions of electrolytes are sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, hydrogen phosphate, and hydrogen carbonate.
But while the electrolytes themselves are manageable, when they are in chemical combination with other things, their behavior in the body changes somewhat.
I like to point out that Chex Mix, sold in bags in stores, has five different kinds of sodium in it, each of which likely behaves somewhat differently in the body.
“Salt, baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), trisodium phosphate, disodium inosinate, and disodium guanylate.”
In this case, it is probably “high blood pressure in a bag.”
The "right amount" of salt, carbs, protein, fat all depends on you and your life style.
A good nutritionist or doctor can help but only about 50% of them know what they are doing.
Ignore anything the government tells you about diet. If their people were any good they would have real jobs.
Listen to your body especially when making any diet change and change only one thing at a time. Wait between 30 and 60 days before making another change.
Someone should market a portable wrist computer for keeping track of all these conflicting and constantly changing dietary recommendations.