I want to share Joe and Teresa Graedon’s response:
“It has been an article of faith for decades that everyone should reduce salt intake, but the data don’t show that limiting sodium consumption makes a difference for otherwise healthy people. The latest research in the Journal of the American Medical Associations (May 4, 2011) reported that lower salt intake was not associated with lower blood pressure. The people who consumed the least salt had the greatest risk of death from cardiovascular complications.” Interesting! “As paradoxical as this seems, it is consistent with previous research. A national nutrition survey (Journal of General Internal Medicine, September 2008) found that low sodium intake was linked to higher cardiovascular mortality. A recent study of people with type 1 diabetes found those with the lowest sodium intake were most likely to die during its 10 year duration (Diabetes Care, April 2011).”
I suppose the salt is OK. I think that what it's on could be a problem.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely. Most sodium in the SAD (standard American diet) comes from preservatives. None of these foods are good for a variety of reasons. Both sodium and chloride, the two minerals that form salt, are critical for a variety of functions in our body. In addition, if you use an unrefined sea salt (unrefined is the key word), you get many more minerals than just sodium and chloride. Lots of sea salt in the market is highly refined, which strips it of most of it's minerals, making it no different than any other refined salt.
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