Posted on 08/30/2021 1:03:23 PM PDT by Red Badger
The daily recommended sodium for adults is 2300 mg, which is about a teaspoon.
Fill up a teaspoon of salt look at it, memorize it, that’s your total daily intake.
Unless you’re cooking from scratch and know exactly how much salt is in anything you make from scratch, one would never know how much salt us being taken in daily, especially eating processed foods.
It’s a lot more than 2,300 mg. I would guess at least 7000mg probably more.
No offense but you’re doctor is crazy imo. Potassium is easily depleted and has so many benefits you don’t want it to be low as most are.
How does it taste?
Sea salt contains magnesium and calcium that play important roles in regulating and balancing sodium and potassium levels in the body. When those are STRIPPED OUT of sea salt and people consume only sodium chloride (modern junk salt) bad things happen. This is not rocket science.
Thank You!!!
I used to drink a 32 oz. bottle of grape Poweraide after putting it in the freezer until it was partly frozen, a grape slushy , mmmmmmm
I don’t do that anymore 🙁
Same here. To, the only difference seems to be the size of the crystals, salt crystals are bigger.
Or just don’t use salt. I hardly use salt but have watched people drain half a salt shaker on already salty food. Just not something I crave. BUT... If people want salt. Let them eat salt. Salt has saved countless lives.
It tastes great, just like regular salt. I use it on popcorn, cooked eggs, vegs, meat, etc. It is NOT like those small navy containers of salt sub - those aren’t good.
“If you don’t swap your salt, you can’t have pudding.
How can you have any pudding if you don’t swap your salt”
I’m in the too much potassium group due to meds. I was told to avoid even foods that are high in potassium.
For some people.
For the rest of humanity there are a hundred more important things that impact our lives.
Will monosodium glutamate be controlled now, too?
Thanks! Nope. Kidneys are great. Everything is just fine for my age (61; how did THAT happen?) other than the slightly elevated blood pressure and if I BEHAVE myself, that’s not an issue, either. ;)
I sent her this article. But you’re right about the potassium. Never WAS an issue until I went low-carb.
Wasn’t an issue LAST check-up, and it really isn’t MUCH of an issue, but heart health is pretty important, considering so many of us are afflicted with bad tickers. :(
“Last year, a modeling study done for China suggested that about 400,000 premature deaths might be prevented each year by national uptake of salt substitute. Our results now confirm this. If salt was switched for salt substitute worldwide, there would be several million premature deaths prevented every year,” he said.
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No. Even under the ideal circumstances of switching out nearly everyone on the planet (a silly hypothetical), this is beyond the physics of what is even possible by at least 50% and likely 3x. The New England Journal is a great publication. You would think that they would know better.
Our bodies need salt. They want another repeat of what happened many decades ago. It causes a lot of health problems and even death.
This was popular in the 80s. These fads just roll and roll.
So does bread, pasta, carbs in general......................
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