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To: little jeremiah
We don’t avoid salt here. :-D

I used to love salt ;) Now I have to avoid it. Check your blood pressure at the drugstore when you visit to make sure you're not hypertensive (over 160 on the top#). It does taste good though... some restaurant's appetizers have over 6000 milligrams of sodium for example, fast food burgers over 1000, etc. Recommended no more than 1500 daily. Don't 'stroke out'!

1,627 posted on 03/29/2020 4:13:58 PM PDT by eldoradude (Kicked a bucket pretty hard last Nov but I'm back...)
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To: eldoradude

I have a weird metabolism; if I don’t eat a lot of salt my BP drops like a stone; one daughter is like that too. Sometimes I feel weak/woozily and I know - Oops, gotta eat some salt! Daughter went to a doc who figured that out and said some people just have a metabolism or body chemistry that requires a lot of salt. Actually after doing research about BP (I’ve had some wild swings sometimes), about 10% of people with BP issues are adversely affected by salt; so it depends on the person. I never eat fast food, only home cooked btw, I don’t even know what it tastes like it’s been so many years. :-D


1,628 posted on 03/29/2020 4:25:50 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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