Cutting salt may increase heart disease risk

[knightofalbion]

\r\n \r\n In something like this I\'d want to know who funded the research because it flies in the face of conventional wisdom on the matter.
\nI think there is far too much added salt in people\'s diets and that needs to be brought under control.
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\nI would certainly agree though that sodium is not a \'bad guy\'. On the contrary it is no more or less important than any other nutrient and it is essential to the maintainance of human life and health. Like everything only becoming a problem in excess.
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\nIf the deaths by cardiovascular disease haven\'t fallen to any significant degree I\'d put that down to the low levels of magnesium in seemingly most people\'s diets.\r\n

[Ted_Hutchinson]

\r\n \r\n Yin-yang effect of sodium and chloride presents salt conundrum
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\r\nIn fact people with low levels of chloride serum in the blood have a higher mortality rate.
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\r\nWhat we should be explaining to people is the requirement for POTASSIUM to counterbalance the sodium.
\r\nPotassium, your invisible friend | Dr. Malcolm Kendrick\r\n

[d0ug]

\r\n \r\n In July of 1993 thousands of people where suffering from a heat wave. People where dieing but all the people who died were on a salt reduced diet from there doctor and a few where save when in the ambulance they where given an IV which is salt water. The medical system thinks we are dumper than cows because they will give a cow a salt block and the cow will take what they need. Salt is needed to produce stomach acid and if not strong enough the result is acid reflux. The Japanese eat 4 times the salt we have and less medical problem and also live longer.\r\n

[jfh]

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association argues that, contrary to all the advice you've heard, lower sodium is actually associated with an INCREASED risk of cardiovascular death. In addition, the study concludes higher sodium levels do not correspond with increased hypertension or cardiovascular disease complications.

https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/cut...-heart-disease