All of y’all need to read “The Salt Fix” by Dr James DiNicolantonio, or watch interviews with him. No one’s understanding of the effects of sodium is greater than his.
His conclusion? High sodium is not the issue, it’s HIGH CARBS which cause the damage.
Ding ding ding! And if you look generationally, carb intake is the one thing that has gone up a lot since the 70s, neither fat intake nor protein intake has gone up much. However I also have some suspicions on the switch from saturated fat to more PUFA as also contributing to probs. After a lot of research, salt is one thing I took off my problem list and happily salt all my food to taste using iodized salt. ANd it's nice to have at least one thing that tastes good that does not need limiting. Although since I eat less processed food, I probably eat less salt than a lot of people.
The answer is actually nitpicking. The salt is eaten in the carbs. We salt fries, crackers, pretzels, pasta. I love salt, I've had to lay off it many times.
I'm more of the opinion it's all the added sugar and high fructose corn syrup, though the extra carbs don't help, as any look at an Italian family, even a generation ago, will show you.
In my haste I wrote the weakest argument; what I should have written is that there is a multitude of healing benefits from using upwards of 6 grams a day of high quality mined salt (not sea salt, which is now tainted)
All of y’all need to read “The Salt Fix” by Dr James DiNicolantonio, or watch interviews with him. No one’s understanding of the effects of sodium is greater than his.
His conclusion? High sodium is not the issue, it’s HIGH CARBS which cause the damage.
Ding ding ding! And if you look generationally, carb intake is the one thing that has gone up a lot since the 70s, neither fat intake nor protein intake has gone up much. However I also have some suspicions on the switch from saturated fat to more PUFA as also contributing to probs. After a lot of research, salt is one thing I took off my problem list and happily salt all my food to taste using iodized salt. ANd it's nice to have at least one thing that tastes good that does not need limiting. Although since I eat less processed food, I probably eat less salt than a lot of people.
The answer is actually nitpicking. The salt is eaten in the carbs. We salt fries, crackers, pretzels, pasta. I love salt, I've had to lay off it many times.
Salt the hell out of a steak then go down to chow town.
That sounded a little gay, but you get the idea.
I had to go snowflake, but I do enjoy Buffalo /BBQ tufu etc.
not plant oils?
I sort of doubt that. Seems more to distract away from plant oils giving people strokes and heart failure
I'm more of the opinion it's all the added sugar and high fructose corn syrup, though the extra carbs don't help, as any look at an Italian family, even a generation ago, will show you.
In my haste I wrote the weakest argument; what I should have written is that there is a multitude of healing benefits from using upwards of 6 grams a day of high quality mined salt (not sea salt, which is now tainted)