“no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death”
Except that dietary salt does 100% with no room for doubt raise blood pressure (which you can test by taking your blood pressure eating a bunch of salt and then taking it again). The mechanism is well understood, salt causes the body to retain water (to dilute the salt). More fluid in your meat sack, higher pressure. So I guess if high blood pressure is fine salt is fine. (High blood pressure is probably not fine).
People on the previous thread talking about salt deficiency are dreaming. The average American eats 5x the DVA of salt per day. (Read labels tomorrow if you don’t believe) You could safely cut your salt intake in half (which is hard) and then in half again (really hard).
Sure, you don’t ever want to get salt deficient (failure mode is WAY worse than high blood pressure), but if you ever do, 5 French fries will fix you right up.
“no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death”
Except that dietary salt does 100% with no room for doubt raise blood pressure (which you can test by taking your blood pressure eating a bunch of salt and then taking it again). The mechanism is well understood, salt causes the body to retain water (to dilute the salt). More fluid in your meat sack, higher pressure. So I guess if high blood pressure is fine salt is fine. (High blood pressure is probably not fine).
People on the previous thread talking about salt deficiency are dreaming. The average American eats 5x the DVA of salt per day. (Read labels tomorrow if you don’t believe) You could safely cut your salt intake in half (which is hard) and then in half again (really hard). Sure, you don’t ever want to get salt deficient (failure mode is WAY worse than high blood pressure), but if you ever do, 5 French fries will fix you right up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10950482