Salt is now good for you

I'm not sure, but I do believe sodium does affect my BP.

When I consume a lot of it, my BP tends to get pretty high.

When I cut down, my BP tends to go down.

For some strange reason, brown rice seems to be my magic bullet for hypertension.

Eat it every night for a week and my BP normalizes.
 
Nomad said:
I'm not sure, but I do believe sodium does affect my BP.

When I consume a lot of it, my BP tends to get pretty high.

When I cut down, my BP tends to go down.

For some strange reason, brown rice seems to be my magic bullet for hypertension.

Eat it every night for a week and my BP normalizes.
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I am sure that coming on here every day and venting your spleen does wonders for your blood pressure!!

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Milagro said:
I am sure that coming on here every day and venting your spleen does wonders for your blood pressure!!

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No effect whatsoever, other than taking up time that I could be doing other things.

But that's the same with everyone else.
 
Rune said:
Pretty sure Napoleon proved the pro salt theory centuries ago.
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Pretty sure that was saltpetre to make gunpowder. That's where the expression taking the piss comes from!

"Historically, this is a pretty odd way of making gunpowder. For most of history, people with guns have also had a source of saltpeter. During the Napoleonic Wars, however, France could not import gunpowder or saltpeter and took to collecting urine from soldiers and livestock. This source of nitrates was collected, converted from calcium nitrate to potassium nitrate, and combined with charcoal and sulfur to field armies."

http://hackaday.com/2015/06/15/gunpowder-from-urine-fighting-a-gorn/


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Buckly J. Ewer said:
Excess salt is bad for you if you have high blood pressure ...
Even if you do have high blood pressure, it is an essential element to life, and always has been.
Biology 101...

Poor Tom
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Yeah you know more than a leading cardiovascular research scientist, what a cockwomble!!

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Yeah you know more than a leading cardiovascular research scientist, what a cockwomble!!

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I'm not disagreeing with the guy in the OP, and I would hope he's correct.

But there are a lot of equally qualified cardiovascular experts who still maintain that too much sodium causes hypertension.
 
Nomad said:
I'm not disagreeing with the guy in the OP, and I would hope he's correct.

But there are a lot of equally qualified cardiovascular experts who still maintain that too much sodium causes hypertension.
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Remember what happened with stomach ulcers. Most medical researchers thought they were caused by stress until it was discovered the true cause was Helicobacter Pylori.

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It's a couple of doctors. Wait a little bit before rushing to judgement.

However for the past few years quite a few people have been questioning the wisdom of low sodium recommendations for everyone.
 
Milagro said:
Remember what happened with stomach ulcers. Most medical researchers thought they were caused by stress until it was discovered the true cause was Helicobacter Pylori.

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Stress triggers the pain, so avoiding stress would reduce pain. But it was indeed not the cause.
 
Back in the 70's the gov't declared saccharin was a deadly carcinogen. Right at the time aspartame was hitting the market, they pulled saccharin off the shelves. While aspartame is a superior tasting product, many people had become addicted to the taste of saccharin. Once again, I suspect that the gov't was simply favoring the profits of one corporation over another.

About 7 or 8 years ago, the gov't reversed it's position on saccharin and declared it safe. Anyone who read the original studies from the 70's knew it was safe anyway. Except for the one activist judge that ruled it a dangerous carcinogen.
 
Prior to saccharine, it was sodium cyclamate or "cyclamate" as it was known. It was the original sweetener used in diet beverages and it was popular because, unlike saccharine, it actually tasted good. After it was banned based on studies paid for by the International Sugar Research Foundation which, conveniently, found cyclamates to (possibly) be carcinogenic, saccharine became the main sweetener in diet beverages, which was OK with the sugar industry because it tasted like crap.
 
Buckly J. Ewer said:
Absolutely ... lard up, four, five, six hundred pounds, get your BP elevated and eat all the shitty salty foods you can get your hands on and I promise, you will live forever ...
You have my word on it...
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Keep eating Kale there Buckly. I bet you don't even know the different types of fat. Your body will continue to crave fat even if you avoid it. Then people eat fat substitutes and artificial sweeteners which are MUCH worse for you.
 
Nomad said:
Prior to saccharine, it was sodium cyclamate or "cyclamate" as it was known. It was the original sweetener used in diet beverages and it was popular because, unlike saccharine, it actually tasted good. After it was banned based on studies paid for by the International Sugar Research Foundation which, conveniently, found cyclamates to (possibly) be carcinogenic, saccharine became the main sweetener in diet beverages, which was OK with the sugar industry because it tasted like crap.
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The sugar industry study is worthless unless politicians and the State choose to believe it, ... conveniently.
 
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