salt & blood pressure

[Guest guest]

My understanding is that sea salt is not considered to lead to high

blood pressure as standard grocery store salt is supposed to do. Can

anyone point me to something about this?

~ Carma ~

To be perpetually talking sense runs out the mind, as perpetually

ploughing and taking crops runs out the land. The mind must be manured,

and nonsense is very good for the purpose. ~ Boswell

Carma's Corner: http://www.users.qwest.net/~carmapaden/

[Guest guest]

Carma,

i wanted to respond to your salt inquiry - i did some reading about this

previously. - please note that this email might only reach you. yesterday,

i temporarily unsubscribed from the list to complete my dissertation this

semester - but i just received your post. if you find any of the info

helpful, please pass it along.

attached are a couple of articles about salt (including the one titled

calcium).

the following is from an email i sent to a family member regarding salt:

" For any research that is controversial. I look for large numbers of

studies from different research groups, for salt there is still plenty of

controversy. But, I did find some interesting items...

A quick check on Sack's research shows something interesting, there is an

important caveat to the original finding (a good journalist dedicated to the

health of their readers would have found this in 5 minutes and included it

in the article). Sack's latest research shows that reducing salt intake

appears to only affect a select group of people of a specific genetic

background. Additionally, this affect was only strong in those eating a

low-fat, high-fruit diet known as DASH (as opposed to typical American diet

or a typical American diet supplemented with fruit, note: salt levels were

manipulated for each diet type). If this is true, we must start considering

interventions other that salt reduction.

Another researcher has suggested that hypertension is not due to high salt,

but an imbalance in all minerals. (This actually goes back to Drew's point

that we should eat salt in its natural form from the sea, which amounts to

~85% salt, and 15% of other essential minerals.) This researcher (McCarron)

has found that calcium also significantly reduced blood pressure.

A meta-analysis (study of previous studies) on salt research found that

other minerals, including calcium may also explain the changes in blood

pressure. For example, the low-salt DASH diet found to lower blood pressure

also increases calcium (because the diet is high in dairy and other real

whole foods). Therefore, high blood pressure could be a effect of high-salt

or low-calcium.

Add to that, sugar inhibits calcium absorption, same for carbonated

beverages. "

----- Original Message -----

From: " Carma Paden " <carmapaden@...>

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Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:21 PM

Subject: salt & blood pressure

My understanding is that sea salt is not considered to lead to high

blood pressure as standard grocery store salt is supposed to do. Can

anyone point me to something about this?

~ Carma ~

To be perpetually talking sense runs out the mind, as perpetually

ploughing and taking crops runs out the land. The mind must be manured,

and nonsense is very good for the purpose. ~ Boswell

Carma's Corner: http://www.users.qwest.net/~carmapaden/

[Guest guest]

At 09:21 PM 3/4/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>My understanding is that sea salt is not considered to lead to high

>blood pressure as standard grocery store salt is supposed to do. Can

>anyone point me to something about this?

Well they have a distinct bias (that I agree with) but try this link at

Weston Price:

http://www.westonaprice.org/askdoctor/ask_blood.html

Regards,

-=mark=-