Too Much Salt In Your Diet!

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Blood Pressure : Why salt is bad

How salt causes heart attacks, strokes, dementia and kidney disease. And how salt stops blood pressure medicines (such as diuretics) from working well.

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Why salt is bad

The amount of salt you eat has a direct effect on your blood pressure.
Salt makes your body hold on to water. If you eat too much salt, the extra water stored in your body raises your blood pressure. So, the more salt you eat, the higher your blood pressure.
The higher your blood pressure, the greater the strain on your heart, arteries, kidneys and brain. This can lead to heart attacks, strokes, dementia and kidney disease.
Also, eating too much salt may mean that blood pressure medicines (such as diuretics) don't work as well as they could.
For more on how salt affects your body, brain, heart and kidneys, please see Salt's effects.

Look after your body: "Cut out the white stuff"
Cutting down on salt is much more than just stopping yourself from adding salt to your cooking or at the table. Did you know that 80% of the salt you eat every day is "hidden" in the processed foods you eat?
In our How to eat less salt section, we look at all the ways you can cut out the white stuff: from healthy shopping and cooking ideas to salt alternatives.

 

[atomicsmoke]

My rule: "if restaurant food doesn't taste too salty you are eating too much salt".

That doesn't mean i dont eat in restaurants.

 

[sawhorseray]

Years back my doc told me that aside from cigarettes salt was the worst thing for the heart. I hardly ever add salt other than the rubs I use on meat or dump into water for pasta. RAY

 

[zwiller]

It's not just about reducing your "salt" or sodium intake... Your water intake plays a huge role in regulating the sodium in your body as well as your potassium intake. Drink TONS of water and get some K in your diet by food or supplements. You need a gallon of water per day... Adding some green smoothies in your diet is a killer way to achieve both and dead serious there are some really tasty recipes out there and it's not at all like drinking grass clippings like people say.

 

[Smokin' in AZ]

Sue and I have been trying to adhere to the Dash diet this year and are doing pretty good.

And it is amazing to see how much salt is in stuff...we always read the label now and make as much fresh so we can control the amount of salt.

John