Posted on 11/10/2011 2:31:09 AM PST by globelamp
Cutting back on salt may not be as beneficial for your heart as once thought, a new study suggests.
While a diet low in salt reduces blood pressure, it increases the levels of cholesterol, fat and hormones in the blood that are known to increase the risk of heart disease, the study found.
Overall, the good and bad consequences of a low-salt diet may cancel each other out, so the diet has relatively little effect on the development of disease, said study researcher Dr. Niels Graudal, of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark.
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Many times when a person can’t get enough salt, the gall bladder is not functioning properly.
Celery and asparagus is great for gallbladder.
I am using sea salt but not Lugol's solution. Unless something weird happens, I am going to assume that I'm getting enough iodine in the sea salt.
Agreed.
Mmmmmmmmm.... bacon!
Ping
“They use to tell me to brush my teeth up and down too.” That’s wrong?
Nowadays if one drinks any milk at all they are getting enough iodine. The cow teats are washed with iodine prior to extracting the milk. (Or so is my understanding) part of my diet (QWLC.com, same as Rush) is to use low-sodium salt. Salt does cause fat cells to retain water and become huge. By cutting salt and drinking LOTS of water I can see my feet once again. After a few weeks I don’t even miss the excess salt.
Can Bloomberg be charged with intentional damage to New York citizens now?
“the Good Book says ‘salt is good’ so unless you can tell me you know more than Jesus Christ, I’ll continue eating it.”
Salt is good! And your body will tell you when you have had too much by making you throw up.
Thats why you need potassium. The cells like to have alot of potassium inside and have alot of sodium outside.
The electrical gradient difference between sodium and potassium is what drives many of the transfers/processes across the cell membrane.
For one, it is what makes your nerves work.
If you have enough potassium, usually your blood pressure will normalize on its own.
Importantly, there is a careful balance of salts in the body, so that eating too much, or too little, of one particular salt can mess you up. There is a lot of argument out there about how much is adequate, so these levels are approximate.
Most adults require 1,000 mg of calcium a day.
Around 1,500 to 2,300 mg of sodium a day.
Around 4,700 mg of potassium a day.
Around 400 mg of magnesium a day.
etc.
I was adding salt to something last weekend and my sister who is a nurse started lecturing me because I have high blood pressure. I responded, I went on a low, almost no salt diet for two years and it didn’t make a bit of difference in my blood pressure readings, so as long as my medication takes care of the problem I am going to use salt.
Thanks for the ping!
Don’t factor the kidney out of the process, silly Billy.
Havn’t factored the kidneys out at all.
I just know from experience that when I lose 6 pounds on a 100 mile bicycle ride, it was lost not via my kidneys and urinary tract - but via respiration and sweat.
I mean how can anybody eat pizza without salt?
Sweat pumps out salt too
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