No Salt Diet For Hypertensives - Get Real
Salt is bad, every authority says so.
The American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association recommend a salt intake of 2400 milligrams, or 2.
4 grams of salt a day to prevent or control hypertension.
That is less than a half teaspoon of salt in 24 hours.
Forget the shaker, can you imagine keeping tract of the sodium content of all of the foods you eat each day? Get real.
Just think how unpalatable all of those saltless foods are going to be.
Your reward for doing this is that you will hold off high blood pressure, and even diabetes.
And, with food as listless as it is sure to be without salt, you probably will hold off obesity as well - whose going to eat that junk.
Many choose hypertension over a saltless life.
But, it gets worse.
By cutting your salt intake to a point where it isn't enough to keep a garden mollusk alive, you are trading in one disease for another.
Yeah, you will not have high blood pressure, but you won't be able to get out of bed either.
One week on this draconian routine and you'll be so tired you will barely be able to stand.
Salt is a key ingredient for energy and the sense of strength.
Chronic fatigue is a disease too.
And, one of the remedies for chronic fatigue is to increase salt - it works like a charm.
In the old days, back in the frontier years, around 1960 for example, a teaspoon of salt, or 5 grams of salt, was the standard for good nutrition.
Even that little bit strained your taste buds, but you could live with it.
Now we're told half a teaspoon of salt is all we get - good heavens.
I wonder if common sense could play a role here.
How about we cut back on salt as much as we can and then some.
How about, in place of almost total salt exclusion, we do some other things to hold off hypertension and maybe even diabetes.
Those other things never seem to come up when some authority is on a salt rant.
How about we make darn sure we eat plenty of green, leafy vegetables; they contain properties known to resist hypertension.
How about we take a strong mineral supplement containing lots of potassium, calcium and magnesium, minerals known to resist hypertension.
How about we take a 20 minute hike every day, because it is good for everything you can name.
How about we take a quick five or ten pounds off; even a small weight loss can change a lot of dynamics.
I could go on but you get the message.
When you consider that the average blood pressure drop from wringing all of the salt out of your diet is only around eleven points at best, you can do better than that using other methods.
The American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association recommend a salt intake of 2400 milligrams, or 2.
4 grams of salt a day to prevent or control hypertension.
That is less than a half teaspoon of salt in 24 hours.
Forget the shaker, can you imagine keeping tract of the sodium content of all of the foods you eat each day? Get real.
Just think how unpalatable all of those saltless foods are going to be.
Your reward for doing this is that you will hold off high blood pressure, and even diabetes.
And, with food as listless as it is sure to be without salt, you probably will hold off obesity as well - whose going to eat that junk.
Many choose hypertension over a saltless life.
But, it gets worse.
By cutting your salt intake to a point where it isn't enough to keep a garden mollusk alive, you are trading in one disease for another.
Yeah, you will not have high blood pressure, but you won't be able to get out of bed either.
One week on this draconian routine and you'll be so tired you will barely be able to stand.
Salt is a key ingredient for energy and the sense of strength.
Chronic fatigue is a disease too.
And, one of the remedies for chronic fatigue is to increase salt - it works like a charm.
In the old days, back in the frontier years, around 1960 for example, a teaspoon of salt, or 5 grams of salt, was the standard for good nutrition.
Even that little bit strained your taste buds, but you could live with it.
Now we're told half a teaspoon of salt is all we get - good heavens.
I wonder if common sense could play a role here.
How about we cut back on salt as much as we can and then some.
How about, in place of almost total salt exclusion, we do some other things to hold off hypertension and maybe even diabetes.
Those other things never seem to come up when some authority is on a salt rant.
How about we make darn sure we eat plenty of green, leafy vegetables; they contain properties known to resist hypertension.
How about we take a strong mineral supplement containing lots of potassium, calcium and magnesium, minerals known to resist hypertension.
How about we take a 20 minute hike every day, because it is good for everything you can name.
How about we take a quick five or ten pounds off; even a small weight loss can change a lot of dynamics.
I could go on but you get the message.
When you consider that the average blood pressure drop from wringing all of the salt out of your diet is only around eleven points at best, you can do better than that using other methods.