"(Reuters Health) - People who ate lots of salt were not more likely to get high blood pressure, and were less likely to die of heart disease than those with a low salt intake, in a new European study.
"The findings 'certainly do not support the current recommendation to lower salt intake in the general population,' study author Dr. Jan Staessen, of the University of Leuven in Belgium, told Reuters Health."
Ha! Take that, my primary care doctor and all you others! I'm going to add salt to my pre-salted potato chips, just to make sure that I get my minimum daily requirement of salt for good heart health.
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Have you tasted the Saltines lately? They taste like communion wafers. I was going to email them but couldn't find an address. I thought it was just me losing my sense of taste.
Tell that to my girlfriend....I put salt on EVERYTHING!
I'm a low salt paranoia. Salt makes
the body retain water. Not good. What nailed me with heart attacks was blocked arteries. low salt was a by product of the therapy afterwards. having died once already, I'll remain a paranoiac.
Actually, I use Salt Sense, that stuff with 1/3 less sodium, and a container lasts me a decade. I don't add salt to much of anything. If I make burgers at home, I salt and pepper the patties. But I eat a lot of processed food, which I know contains a lot of salt. I take a daily blood pressure pill.
I remember popping salt tablets like they were peanuts while playing sports to overcome any cramping issues. Times have changed.
I rarely add salt to anything anymore. I find the food actually tastes better naturally. When I eat out, I notice the heavy salt and usually feel very thirsty afterward.
They change their mind on what you should and shouldn't be eating as much as one changes their socks. I don't worry about anything in moderation. We all eventually die, so we might as well enjoy ourselves while we can.
It seems silly to use salt and also take blood pressure medication or water pills. Why pay the price of medication if you are going to sabotage the effect?
Wow KK, very deep withins. Anything & everything in moderation works for me, but what is that about changing your socks? lol
Gee, Jed, lay off. Just because the hair is blond, doesn't mean the brain waves only contain fluff. Wait, I think the original saying had to do with snow on the roof and something about fire? ;>
OK, sorry KK, I think it goes "there may be snow on the roof, but there is still fire in the furnance" I don't know, I'm just saying...lol
Hey Dear KK, I remember when all of a sudden milk was bad for ya and eggs where bad...gezzzzz.
Can’t remember who it was (Oprah?) said broccoli was bad to eat, and sales dropped.
Remember when the little old lady said in a commercial, “where’s the beef”, do you know beef sales actually went up 20% back then!!! I saw that on the History Channel.
Jed, back in the late 60's a company where I worked had salt tablet dispensers on the walls in certain departments! At the end of the day, people that ate then there shirts would have 'salt rings' on them from sweating!
Thanks for the great visual Ser, lol. Let us not forget about coffee, one day they say it's good for you, next time not. What is up?
I know a guy who takes a Viagra tablet before seeing his doctor for a physical, because Viagra lowers blood pressure. (When he first told me, I didn't know about the blood pressure thing. I thought, "What the hell kind of doctor are you seeing?") I understand that kind of thinking.
Maybe he was going to see the urologist and wanted to make a good impression?
Ser, I believe Oprah got in trouble for making a remark about not eating hamburgers on a show about mad cow disease. Texas had a law about disparaging beef and she got sued.
Yes Boppster, I remember that. She stepped on her tit on that one.
Jed, wans't it sugar and coffee had weather problems and they raise the living hell out of the cost of it?
Orbs, some old guys use Viagra so they don't roll out of bed at night!
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