Re: Re: Salt guidelines for food industry and restaurants

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This is an old theme for me here... but one more time with feeling. Different individuals have different sensitivity to salt balance and BP. A quick google search found one estimate of 10-25% as salt sensitive, While if you have high BP you may be in that group, since up-modulating blood volume, with stiff pipes is never helpful. Therein lies the rub with making dietary recommendations to the general population. It is pretty easy to ASSume that people eating lots of processed foods and taking regular meals at a fast food restaurant will be getting too much sodium. Members of this list have hopefully weaned themselves off of most processed foods and big macs with fries. So may already be low to moderate on sodium intake (just because it says "healthy" on the package label does not make processed meals good food... read the label). If you have identified that you individually are salt sensitive by all means keep your intake low, but not zero.. Our body uses salt to manage our cellular water balance. Our body saves salt so we don't need a lot, especially in the winter months, but in the summer if you work outdoors and perspire a lot you may even need to supplement salt, especially if on a presumably "healthy" diet based on mainstream guidelines that may not be a good fit for some of us.. Balance and moderation, unless you are treating a diagnosed condition, then manage the symptoms. JRPS: I have a suspicion that mass market food merchants are pumping salt water into many uncooked meats, to increase their profit margin, so taste your food before adding seasoning. After it cooks obviously. :-) If my suspicion is true I don't know how accurate sodium estimates are from diet planning software. On Feb 10, 2011, at 6:37 AM, wrote:

Salt sensitivity and hypertension are a huge problem and one that i myself have suffered from for many years. Over the last thirty years i have intermittently been on at least two anti hypertensive's at a time ,but realised that some diets allowed me to have the dose reduced but not actually realising why. When i was 100% raw vegan for a year i came off all antihypertensives, but when i introduced some bread and processed foods my blood pressure shot back up and quickly necessitating going back onto anti hypertensive's,

It wasn't until i began practicising Cron and using the crono meter last November that i set my biomarkers and nutrional parameters.

I set the sodium level at a daily maximum of 1000mg. At once the antihypertensives were too strong, i became dizzy and had low blood pressure and had to cease all medication.

Its taken me all these years to realise how sodium was affecting my health. (No Doctor ever suggested reducing sodium) Now i have perfectly normal b/p without medication.

Incidentally I'm 56 and just wish i had discovered calorie restriction years ago , however im a strict practioner and plan to follow the programme for life. I may not live to 120 but i plan to try and avoid those preventable diseases and have optimal health for as long as possible.

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You now can get many processed foods salt free. Trader Joe’s sells a sodium free whole wheat bread. And I buy canned salmon salt free (available at both TJ’s and Whole Foods) and canned salt free garbanzos and beans at Whole Foods.

On 2/10/11 7:37 AM, " " <pgf54@...> wrote:

Salt sensitivity and hypertension are a huge problem and one that i myself have suffered from for many years. Over the last thirty years i have intermittently been on at least two anti hypertensive's at a time ,but realised that some diets allowed me to have the dose reduced but not actually realising why. When i was 100% raw vegan for a year i came off all antihypertensives, but when i introduced some bread and processed foods my blood pressure shot back up and quickly necessitating going back onto anti hypertensive's,

It wasn't until i began practicising Cron and using the crono meter last November that i set my biomarkers and nutrional parameters.

I set the sodium level at a daily maximum of 1000mg. At once the antihypertensives were too strong, i became dizzy and had low blood pressure and had to cease all medication.

Its taken me all these years to realise how sodium was affecting my health. (No Doctor ever suggested reducing sodium) Now i have perfectly normal b/p without medication.

Incidentally I'm 56 and just wish i had discovered calorie restriction years ago , however im a strict practioner and plan to follow the programme for life. I may not live to 120 but i plan to try and avoid those preventable diseases and have optimal health for as long as possible.