A new study shows a little less salt in our diets could produce big health benefits:
Using a sophisticated computer model to analyze trends in heart disease over time among U.S. adults, Bibbins-Domingo and colleagues discovered that incremental population-wide reductions could drastically improve public health. Cutting out just 1 g of salt (or 40 mg of sodium) per person per day could prevent 30,000 cases of coronary heart disease across the U.S. population by 2019. Reducing consumption by half — a more sizable 6 grams — could prevent 1.4 million cases of heart disease during that same period.You can read the whole article on the Time website.
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wellt that's because salt intake is directly related to hypertension. I usually prescribe less than 2 grams of sodium in this set of patients.
I'm not convinced that salt intake leads to hypertenstion, check out this post from Conditioning Research for a study where the scientists "bserved a significantly increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) associated with lower sodium diets". I tried to find a good article I'd read a while ago, but haven't been able to find it.
To be honest, I never pay any attention to my sodium intake. I perspire so much that I don't think it would matter.
I believe exercise would to much more than salt reduction.
Regardless, I thought I'd post it.
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