And another myth debunked

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Cliffy

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Consuming too much salt (a handful of potato chips) causes water retention for me. If I put the same amount of pure sea salt in a soup, I have no water retention. Table salt is bad for you. If you need iodine in your diet find out which veggies are high in iodine.
 
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We definitely need salt in our diet. But those eating at McRaunchies and such are taking in way too much salt. Canned soups are another I can't eat as well as chips and other packaged snacks. I retain water really bad. When I had a congestive heart failure attack, I took a diuretic and lost 30 pounds of water in two weeks. So saying too much salt causes problems is hooey is what is hooey.
 
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Your article still says we eat too much salt. The CDC article says it's all bunk.
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read the whole article that you posted dummy..... geez... what is this..... more proof that teachers are brain dead?

Another study, published in 2011, followed 28,800 subjects with high blood pressure ages 55 and older for 4.7 years and analyzed their sodium consumption by urinalysis. The researchers reported that the risks of heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure and death from heart disease increased significantly for those consuming more than 7,000 milligrams of sodium a day and for those consuming fewer than 3,000 milligrams of sodium a day.
To translate this last study into teaspoons: the finding was that anything between 1-1/2 and 3 tsp of salt per day is just fine, and there were adverse effects from eating more than that or less than that. Most Americans who are not consciously restricting salt fall in this range (1-1/2 to 3 tsp). People who are on low-salt diets for medical reasons are getting as little as 1/2 tsp, and they’re well into the range where dearth of salt is harming them. The worst impact of low salt is on insulin sensitivity. Loss of insulin sensitivity is a big risk factor for all the diseases of old age.
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oh ya....and.....

The problem is not salt, it’s the type of salt we use. It takes just half an hour for one meal high in table salt to significantly impair the arteries’ ability to pump blood around the body, alarming research has shown. Blood flow becomes temporarily more restricted between 30 minutes and an hour after the food has been consumed. “Most scientific studies use processed table salt as a source of sodium which the body has a hard time physiologically to process unlike its natural counterpart sea salt,” said Dr. Jamil Najma who only recommends sea salt to his patients.
There’s Good Salt and Bad Salt…Know The Difference!
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