"is the low sodium diet yet another piece of ‘health advice’ that we should take with a pinch of salt?'
Metaphorically yes.
They conflate stuff and find things to support their narrative. We Need plenty salt, fo all sorts of reasons. We do not need the other crap they tell us to eat. like seed oils. Seed oils are more likely the cause of 'sticky' blood than salt.
Remember, they want us alive and unwell so we are dumbed down and compliant and they can 'treat' us.
Celtic or Himalayan salt is good. Table salt is bad because of its chloride content. Look for sodium that has not been adulterated. Sodium is an essential mineral.
Himalayan and Celtic salt are still mostly sodium chloride. Sure Himalayan salt, for instance ,also contains other minerals, potassium, magnesium, calcium and iron being the most significant and noticeable. The troublesome part of so called 'table salt' are the anti caking agents such as sodium aluminosilicate, silicon dioxide, and magnesium carbonate., not chloride. Whatever the source, mined or extracted from the sea, what we call 'salt' is all fundamentally sodium chloride NaCl.
Funny thing, huh? None o' them experts been considering the low-salt diet recommendations as a factor in the baffling increase in colon cancer incidence and deaths, have they? Fortunately I've ignored dietary advice for as long as I've been responsible for my own food choices.
If I want dietary advice, I either research it myself, use my gut (boom boom) or seek it from someone who is in physically good condition e.g. a sportsman, not a doctor. Doctors are usually about 20 years behind sportsmen who work out what does or doesn't work through trial and error and results.
I've got to say, I mostly ignore the experts and I'm 76 and in perfect health. But I do watch what I eat and get exercise. Still, chocolate is a gift from the gods, and I would not want to offend the gods, so I eat it.
Be sure not to eat reg. table salt. ie Mortons. Too many additives. Use pink Himalayan. And to make popcorn salt, just grind pink salt in spice grinder.
Actually my friend, SEA SALT is better than Himalayan Pink Salt. There are weird rumblings regarding the source of Himalayan and regardless of whether true or not, Sea Salt is a classic, based, healthy salt.
Himalayan rock salt is very cheap so nobody is going to bother faking it though I have seen someone worried about that possibility, and really, when it comes even from Pakistan, the Himalayan mountains in Pakistan are part of the Indian Himalayas and used to be officially part of India anyway, and I have bought many bags from many different companies over several decades and it all always tastes just the same characteristic sweet taste and is very gentle on the stomach, also not producing nausea like refined salt does, and is definitely the real thing.
It is not some faked more local salt that is died pink for instance, and I have purchased slightly more expensive certificated brands from the Himalayas to compare others with, they are all just the same quality, it is just that some retailers like to make a little more more money.
Only by getting ancient excavated or mined rock salt deposits are you getting salt free from highly damaging microplastics these days.
I've read the same and agree with you. It's a matter of price for me as the grey sea salt is higher priced. I did buy it years ago but have to go with the pink salt now.
That is no doubt true. But microplastics are probably much more widely distributed in our environment. The amount in your salt is infinitesimal compared to (say) what comes off the plastic dishes or containers you use daily. There's always more to the story. For example, even with microplastic contaminants, it's possible that sea salt delivers micro-nutrients (minerals) lacking in "normal" salt.
Of course, if we all stopped listening to Health Canada, we'd get healthy. And Health Canada's raison d'etre would cease to exist!! No more overpaid bureaucrats lording it over us.
But just think, if you follow everything Health Canada says, you might get to look as healthy as Teresa Tam!
i’ve always wondered how an important electrolyte could be so bad. simple mind would think that it would just need to be balanced against other important minerals and water. i remember being given salt pills during athletic practices during hot summers.
There are a lot of conflicting studies on salt. The "experts" have a poor track record on "climate change," COVID, heart disease, cancer, etc. I certainly would be skeptical of what they have to say about salt. Always assume bullshit until proven otherwise. I am not sure what their beef is with salt. Maybe they demand higher payoffs from industry to change "the science" in favor of salt consumption?
The whole idea that high sodium is a cause of heart disease was based on bad science. High insulin leads to heart disease and high sodium. Both are effects of the same cause.
Dr Matthias Rath found that much heart disease is actually due to scurvy from vitamin C deficiency. He goes into this in his free to download book 'Why Animals Don't Get Heart Attacks But People Do'.
He states that just taking 500 mg Vitamin C minimum every day and one or two other very basic supplements you can buy anywhere for a few cents will reduce all atherosclerotic deposits in the heart by 50% in just 3 years.
Chlorine in drinking and bathing water can also also cause plaques that block arteries in the heart and chlorine can cause a large proportion of certain types of cancer as well. This was especially well-demonstrated in autopsies of young servicemen in their early twenties in the Korean War who had been killed during military operations and then autopsied, and found to have several arteries almost completely blocked, this had resulted from the bathing and drinking water on the military bases having had double the normal amount of chlorine added.
There are actually quite a number of causes of heart disease besides these, even air pollution from motor vehicles.
My husband has been a saltaholic his entire life. As a teenager, he actually used to put a small pile of salt on his plate as a kind of "dipping sauce" for the rest of his food. Now in his early 60s, he still uses lots of salt on his food - he recently drilled out the holes of our wooden salt shaker so that he could get a more efficient flow of those wonderful white crystals onto his food.
I used to worry about his salt intake, but the thing is, he is really damn healthy. So it was difficult for me to argue with him about his little "addiction." At one point I got my hands on a blood pressure measuring device (a sphygmomanometer) and actually learned how to use it so that I could monitor his blood pressure and figure out once and for all if he should listen to me - or if I should listen to him.
Turns out his blood pressure has consistently been around 110/60 - about that of a healthy, athletic, 25 year-old.
For anyone who wants to get beyond anecdotal information about salt, check out this Scientific American article:
Here's a taste of what SA had to say about salt in *JULY 2011*:
"This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure. In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine—an excellent measure of prior consumption—the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease. These findings call into question the common wisdom that excess salt is bad for you, but the evidence linking salt to heart disease has always been tenuous."
Cutting salt WILL kill appetite. So elders “losing” their appetite could be from LACK of sodium vs. “Giving Up” as some “Just let em die” proponents advise.
Think on this...when one goes to the hospital or is picked up by a paramedic ambulance, the FIRST thing they do is hook ya up to an IV of Sodium cuz they KNOW everyone is low on it. Why? Because The People have been lied to regarding health. [They] don't want ya dead, just blasted with chronic illnesses cuz gosh, a healthy or dead person means no money. Low sodium is the cause for many a bad thing, mainly because of the kidneys and liver not being able to absorb the water needed to properly flush the system. If the garbage keeps floating around and isn't being taken out on 'trash day,' it's the same as having that full opened garbage bag in your house for months on end.
Sea Salt is the way to go. It's natural and has been around since Time began. Our bodies naturally get rid of what isn't required.
Research "Electrolytes" - sodium (sea salt), potassium (lemons, limes, oranges) and real sugar (honey, maple syrup, etc.)
A lot of confounding variables lie between sodium intake and life expectancy. For example, people in the West eat a lot of meat (good variable for general health and well-being) and nearly all tend to salt their meat. Which is it? The meat? The salt? Living in an environment generally free of salt-free hunger?
... wow, there again. I am HYPOTENSIVE, meaning LOW 90/60 BP ...
Doctor's orders - EAT MORE SALT. This has been confirmed by a few doctors since I was 13 and found to be seriously Hypotensive. Passed out every time I just stood up "to quickly".
So .. no ... I have several doctors since I was 13 and am now 70 ... "eat more salt..."
My school in the north of Ireland was founded during the plantation of Ulster in the 17th century by the Salters Company - a London guild who traded internationally in salt.
Our school motto was ‘Sal sapit omnia’ - salt savours all.
Given that background I have always liked salt. I am 70 now & in very good health.
"is the low sodium diet yet another piece of ‘health advice’ that we should take with a pinch of salt?'
Metaphorically yes.
They conflate stuff and find things to support their narrative. We Need plenty salt, fo all sorts of reasons. We do not need the other crap they tell us to eat. like seed oils. Seed oils are more likely the cause of 'sticky' blood than salt.
Remember, they want us alive and unwell so we are dumbed down and compliant and they can 'treat' us.
Follow the money.
Salt is cheap. Salt is good.
Celtic or Himalayan salt is good. Table salt is bad because of its chloride content. Look for sodium that has not been adulterated. Sodium is an essential mineral.
Himalayan and Celtic salt are still mostly sodium chloride. Sure Himalayan salt, for instance ,also contains other minerals, potassium, magnesium, calcium and iron being the most significant and noticeable. The troublesome part of so called 'table salt' are the anti caking agents such as sodium aluminosilicate, silicon dioxide, and magnesium carbonate., not chloride. Whatever the source, mined or extracted from the sea, what we call 'salt' is all fundamentally sodium chloride NaCl.
Another myth, another debunking. Because everything is a lie. Start there and prove truth.
Funny thing, huh? None o' them experts been considering the low-salt diet recommendations as a factor in the baffling increase in colon cancer incidence and deaths, have they? Fortunately I've ignored dietary advice for as long as I've been responsible for my own food choices.
If I want dietary advice, I either research it myself, use my gut (boom boom) or seek it from someone who is in physically good condition e.g. a sportsman, not a doctor. Doctors are usually about 20 years behind sportsmen who work out what does or doesn't work through trial and error and results.
I've got to say, I mostly ignore the experts and I'm 76 and in perfect health. But I do watch what I eat and get exercise. Still, chocolate is a gift from the gods, and I would not want to offend the gods, so I eat it.
Potato chips are a gift from the gods too, I think.
There are now potato chips cooked in beef tallow!
The gods really are looking out for those of us who live where winter is really winter.
chips and salsa is where it's at
Well. There are many gods and all their gifts should be honored.
Eat potato chips made with sea salt, not table salt.
All salt is sea salt.
Be sure not to eat reg. table salt. ie Mortons. Too many additives. Use pink Himalayan. And to make popcorn salt, just grind pink salt in spice grinder.
Actually my friend, SEA SALT is better than Himalayan Pink Salt. There are weird rumblings regarding the source of Himalayan and regardless of whether true or not, Sea Salt is a classic, based, healthy salt.
Himalayan rock salt is very cheap so nobody is going to bother faking it though I have seen someone worried about that possibility, and really, when it comes even from Pakistan, the Himalayan mountains in Pakistan are part of the Indian Himalayas and used to be officially part of India anyway, and I have bought many bags from many different companies over several decades and it all always tastes just the same characteristic sweet taste and is very gentle on the stomach, also not producing nausea like refined salt does, and is definitely the real thing.
It is not some faked more local salt that is died pink for instance, and I have purchased slightly more expensive certificated brands from the Himalayas to compare others with, they are all just the same quality, it is just that some retailers like to make a little more more money.
Only by getting ancient excavated or mined rock salt deposits are you getting salt free from highly damaging microplastics these days.
I've read the same and agree with you. It's a matter of price for me as the grey sea salt is higher priced. I did buy it years ago but have to go with the pink salt now.
Sea salt = micro plastics 🫤
That is no doubt true. But microplastics are probably much more widely distributed in our environment. The amount in your salt is infinitesimal compared to (say) what comes off the plastic dishes or containers you use daily. There's always more to the story. For example, even with microplastic contaminants, it's possible that sea salt delivers micro-nutrients (minerals) lacking in "normal" salt.
As soon as you can my friend, change that, for you.
Much Love
I thought what was important was the ratio of sodium to potassium.
I'm to the point now that I consider doing THE EXACT OPPOSITE of whatever us recommended by HEALTH Canada 🇨🇦.
Of course, if we all stopped listening to Health Canada, we'd get healthy. And Health Canada's raison d'etre would cease to exist!! No more overpaid bureaucrats lording it over us.
But just think, if you follow everything Health Canada says, you might get to look as healthy as Teresa Tam!
i’ve always wondered how an important electrolyte could be so bad. simple mind would think that it would just need to be balanced against other important minerals and water. i remember being given salt pills during athletic practices during hot summers.
Balance is the key word in nutrition.
There are a lot of conflicting studies on salt. The "experts" have a poor track record on "climate change," COVID, heart disease, cancer, etc. I certainly would be skeptical of what they have to say about salt. Always assume bullshit until proven otherwise. I am not sure what their beef is with salt. Maybe they demand higher payoffs from industry to change "the science" in favor of salt consumption?
The whole idea that high sodium is a cause of heart disease was based on bad science. High insulin leads to heart disease and high sodium. Both are effects of the same cause.
Dr Matthias Rath found that much heart disease is actually due to scurvy from vitamin C deficiency. He goes into this in his free to download book 'Why Animals Don't Get Heart Attacks But People Do'.
He states that just taking 500 mg Vitamin C minimum every day and one or two other very basic supplements you can buy anywhere for a few cents will reduce all atherosclerotic deposits in the heart by 50% in just 3 years.
Chlorine in drinking and bathing water can also also cause plaques that block arteries in the heart and chlorine can cause a large proportion of certain types of cancer as well. This was especially well-demonstrated in autopsies of young servicemen in their early twenties in the Korean War who had been killed during military operations and then autopsied, and found to have several arteries almost completely blocked, this had resulted from the bathing and drinking water on the military bases having had double the normal amount of chlorine added.
There are actually quite a number of causes of heart disease besides these, even air pollution from motor vehicles.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5777598/
Three more cheers for NE!
My husband has been a saltaholic his entire life. As a teenager, he actually used to put a small pile of salt on his plate as a kind of "dipping sauce" for the rest of his food. Now in his early 60s, he still uses lots of salt on his food - he recently drilled out the holes of our wooden salt shaker so that he could get a more efficient flow of those wonderful white crystals onto his food.
I used to worry about his salt intake, but the thing is, he is really damn healthy. So it was difficult for me to argue with him about his little "addiction." At one point I got my hands on a blood pressure measuring device (a sphygmomanometer) and actually learned how to use it so that I could monitor his blood pressure and figure out once and for all if he should listen to me - or if I should listen to him.
Turns out his blood pressure has consistently been around 110/60 - about that of a healthy, athletic, 25 year-old.
For anyone who wants to get beyond anecdotal information about salt, check out this Scientific American article:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt/
Here's a taste of what SA had to say about salt in *JULY 2011*:
"This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure. In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine—an excellent measure of prior consumption—the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease. These findings call into question the common wisdom that excess salt is bad for you, but the evidence linking salt to heart disease has always been tenuous."
Cutting salt WILL kill appetite. So elders “losing” their appetite could be from LACK of sodium vs. “Giving Up” as some “Just let em die” proponents advise.
Think on this...when one goes to the hospital or is picked up by a paramedic ambulance, the FIRST thing they do is hook ya up to an IV of Sodium cuz they KNOW everyone is low on it. Why? Because The People have been lied to regarding health. [They] don't want ya dead, just blasted with chronic illnesses cuz gosh, a healthy or dead person means no money. Low sodium is the cause for many a bad thing, mainly because of the kidneys and liver not being able to absorb the water needed to properly flush the system. If the garbage keeps floating around and isn't being taken out on 'trash day,' it's the same as having that full opened garbage bag in your house for months on end.
Sea Salt is the way to go. It's natural and has been around since Time began. Our bodies naturally get rid of what isn't required.
Research "Electrolytes" - sodium (sea salt), potassium (lemons, limes, oranges) and real sugar (honey, maple syrup, etc.)
*Tips hat
Much Love
Yep - the "salt is bad" thing has always been complete and utter bullshit - same as the dietary fat/cholesterol total bullshit story.
A lot of confounding variables lie between sodium intake and life expectancy. For example, people in the West eat a lot of meat (good variable for general health and well-being) and nearly all tend to salt their meat. Which is it? The meat? The salt? Living in an environment generally free of salt-free hunger?
... wow, there again. I am HYPOTENSIVE, meaning LOW 90/60 BP ...
Doctor's orders - EAT MORE SALT. This has been confirmed by a few doctors since I was 13 and found to be seriously Hypotensive. Passed out every time I just stood up "to quickly".
So .. no ... I have several doctors since I was 13 and am now 70 ... "eat more salt..."
Just like butter v. margarine back in the day, animal fats v. seed oils & eggs as bad….
My school in the north of Ireland was founded during the plantation of Ulster in the 17th century by the Salters Company - a London guild who traded internationally in salt.
Our school motto was ‘Sal sapit omnia’ - salt savours all.
Given that background I have always liked salt. I am 70 now & in very good health.