[doc1019]

Well, If the British can say water doesn’t hydrate, we can believe most anything.

[jakerobins]

If the health Nazi’s keep it up with trying to prohibit Salt...I could see people smuggling Kilos of Salt into the country and selling grams on the street. Just like old fashioned incandesent light bulbs or dish washing powders that actually work. All the libs will achieve with their ban is creating a thriving black market! By the way I have quite a nice stockpile of lightbulbs if anyone cares to make an offer...LOL!

[Flightdeck]

Gimme a break, sodium kills your ability to work out at a high level, and I have no doubt it makes your heart go kaput.

[jakerobins]

If the health Nazi’s keep it up with trying to prohibit Salt...I could see people smuggling Kilos of Salt into the country and selling grams on the street. Just like old fashioned incandesent light bulbs or dish washing powders that actually work. All the libs will achieve with their ban is creating a thriving black market! By the way I have quite a nice stockpile of lightbulbs if anyone cares to make an offer...LOL!

[dalereed]

BS!!!

One year I was one point from failing my flight physical and going on a salt free diet for one month lowered my blood pressure 8 points.

[goodnesswins]

Um....we need salt, BUT, each person is different, and there are DIFFERENT ways to take in salt....processed foods is probably more the problem.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Accurate.

Most people have no problem with salt, there are a few that have salt sensitive hypertension. But the idea that "salt is evil" is stupid.

Sodium is necessary for life. You don't have it and you die. That is why the human tongue has so many taste buds devoted to salt.

I invite the anti-sodium zealots to go on a sodium free diet. In a few weeks I will send dandelions to their funerals.

[A_perfect_lady]

They can have my salt shaker when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

[lurk]

I’ve always wondered how a vital mineral like salt, which was a preservative for thousands of years before the refrigerator, ended up getting so much blame.

[Born to Conserve]

Salt make no difference to most people. If you drink enough water, and get a reasonable balance of electrolytes, you can have lots of salt.

Some people have problems with it though. So let’s make everyone suffer and cut it out of the diet.

[Ackackadack]

I've become very skeptical of natural substances in moderation being supposedly bad for you, ever since eggs were once vilified, and have since been vindicated (along with cholesterol itself for the most part).

As for the salt-free diet for a month dropping one's blood pressure by 8 pts., that's nothing. Really, putting up with that for a month for 8 pts.? If you want to suffer without taste in your food for that long, that's up to you, but more than once I've had a measured 15 pt. drop by simply breathing long and slow for half an hour, and a measured 20 pt. drop by drinking celery juice (a natural calcium channel blocker).

In addition, (disclaimer, NONE of this is medical advice), maybe those who are sensitive to salt are not getting enough potassium. Do an internet search on the sodium-potassium pump.

[COgamer]

Sodium causes water retention, which causes your heart to work harder pumping extra fluid through your veins - especially in older years when your kidney function decreases. That’s kind of common sense. Especially in patients with heart failure, where significant edema can build up, salt restriction is an easy and effective preventative measure.

One of the reasons the cost of health care and health insurance is as high as it is because of people who just refuse to take care of themselves even after they are diagnosed with a serious medical condition - leaving the rest of us to pay more to cover the larger footprint resulting from their irresponsibility.

[Diapason]

When I first moved out of my parents home when I was in my 20’s, I was still using salt, which I been brought up to do. The first winter living on my own in Cape Town, South Africa where winters tend to be very damp, the dampness caused the salt to solidify. Instead of trying to solve the salt dampness problem, I just stopped using it and discovered what food really tastes like. However, in spite of having added no salt to anything for about 30 years, I have very high blood pressure - seems to be a genetic problem.

[tired&retired]

If you understand this simple diagram of how an action potential creates nerve message transmissions, then you understand the necessity for sodium! Without it, you can't think! It creates the differential required for firing.

[tired&retired]

Anyone remember “salt tablets” during periods of extreme perspiration?

[Rappini]

Funny how things change when I was in the Military our barracks had salt tablet dispensers.

[leapfrog0202]