Re: Sodium & BP

[Guest guest]

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You give a wonderful description of the new frontiers and taste

adventures awaiting someone who leaves salt behind and discovers the subtler

tastes that it was masking all that time. I find some lettuce to be

incredibly sweet.

I sometimes wonder if sweet and salty are flavors to naturally explore

as children along with our toys and our tantrums.

Growing up can mean dropping many of our childish ways: it seems natural

and appropriate for adults to begin exploring the bitter and sour. I am

often surprised at how rich some bitter tastes can be like fresh roasted

coffee, fresh green tea, etc.

S Pollock

Robt wrote:

I think there are other aspects of salt intake that suggest natural

restriction is a good idea. One in particular (in my option) is the

strange addiction to the flavor that seems to permeate much of American

culture. (I know that there are other cultures that consume salt to a hugh

level as well). Food marketing generally isn't concerned at all with your

health--they could care less--but with moving their product. And because

our senses have been bombarded with extremes in just about everything,

including taste, we seem to want more and more strong flavors. It is like

a strange addiction, and the two big culprits in my mind are SWEET and

SALTY. Hey, almost everybody I know like a good plate of Latin food or a

bowl of ice-cream. Both more in the extremes of SALTY or SWEET.

CR moves me in the direction I want to go, and if sodium restriction lowers

my blood pressure, even if a little, I am willing to brave the hazard. In

any case, I have discovered that when I am hungry (and I have been that A

LOT lately), even a plate of raw salad has flavors that I missed. I

already know I am a sugar addict, (among other things). Have you ever

tasted how sweet a steamed beat is? WOW. Have you ever tasted the

bitter/salty flavor of a stick of celery? Because I eat less, I find that

I enjoy what I eat more, and my goodness have I missed a lot!

Strange, but I am beginning to look at some foods (like a bowl of tamale

soup) and get a wave a distaste. I didn't know this, but in my memory,

barried deap away, I recall eating such things and feeling sick afterward.

And, I have noticed repeately that after I eat my food choices now, I don't

have those feelings at all, but feel very much even keel and stable,

sometimes with a spark of additional energy. Such experiences are causing

my committment to CR to deapen.