When salt became cheap it became ubiquitous. No longer precious, it began to appear in almost all foods, not just preserved ones. Eating less salt, generally speaking, causes blood pressure to drop. Enter a new report from the Institutes of Medicine or I. But the report is far from conclusive and a related paper in the journal Heart has since been retracted , and the resulting kerfuffle, as far as I can tell, is premature [1].
In fact, it changes nothing about the general advice about salt and high blood pressure. It might mean, simply, that you might not want to eliminate all the added sodium from your diet, which would be nearly impossible anyway.
Milk contains sodium; spinach, too. Nearly everything [2]. Of course you need sodium, but insufficient consumption is hardly a public health threat. Even the I. It may be true that there are no benefits in an ultra-low-salt diet, but almost no one is eating an ultra-low-salt diet.
No doubt more research would be a good thing. Salt and your health, Part 1: the sodium connection. Harvard Health Publishing. Harvard Medical School.
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In addition, your arteries may harden, blood pressure rises and fluids increase in people with heart, liver or kidney diseases. In , the I nternational Journal of Epidemiology published a study proving that both men and women who died from stomach cancer were linked to very high salt consumption throughout their lives.
Not to mention, that extra side of fries you ordered for lunch may very well leave you with bags under your eyes, puffy lips and inflated cheeks — aka edema. However, did you know that NOT consuming enough salt has equally horrible effects on the body? In addition to controlling your blood pressure, salt is also needed for your muscles and nerves to work properly. Insufficient sodium can cause hyponatremia , characterized by the following symptoms:.
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