This study sought to assess the effects of a salt substitute (62.5% NaCl, 25% KCl, and 12.5% flavorings) on incidence of hypertension and hypotension among older adults with normal blood pressure.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0735109723082633?via%3Dihub
At the risk of coming off like I’m criticizing, wasn’t I told to substitute my choices of fats, with margarine, and low-fat alternatives that were instead laden with other problems ? Oh, and the sugar alternatives like aspartame, and Splenda?
Forgive my skepticism. But I’m much healthier after a decade of going back to butter, sugar, and less processed foods? My medical chart is all I need for confirmation of my choices.
Encouraging news though.
It sounds like this is specifically for people with hypertension that require low sodium diets. In the case of someone who’s already in a high risk category the calculus is probably a bit different.
Margarine I can understand, but aspartame is likely the most rigorously studied food additive of all time. Anecdotally and in contrast to your experience, I’ve been healthier since I swapped sugar in drinks to artificial sweeteners. But if it works for you, the numbers are the numbers, so keep at it. I once lost 20 pounds over the course of a year in highschool by swapping my lunch for a pack of Twinkies. Turns out calories in<calories out works no matter what you eat.
You can both be right, because trying to make more conscious health decisions is what actually made you healthier.
There are no studies linking salt with any health issues. It’s just a lunacy of one very loud man.
There are copious studies showing the link between excess salt and hypertension and heart disease. This has been well established for decades
Mmm, nope - https://youtu.be/HMsbl22gQLg
I suggest you watch that video again. He agrees that high sodium increases blood pressure. Most of his points are about how it affects people differently and other lifestyle factors that affect blood pressure such overall diet and exercise.
Yeah, but high sodium means you eat kilos of it every day. No one does that. NO ONE!
So the salt alternative is mostly salt and rock salt?
This works because those are also electrolytes that most people are likely to be low in. The human body needs salt and we don’t actually have a problem with too much salt these days. Most canned food has gone lite salt and heavy sugar to cover up the lack of salt.
Does the fediverse have any communities for keto or low carb/high protein?
Does the fediverse have any communities for keto or low carb/high protein?
I hope not, ketobro pseudoscience is a blight on the web
Sugar is used to cover up excess salt not instead of salt. They are counter flavors that tend to cancel each other.
Sugar and salt can both extend shelf life as well so increasing both can increases shelf life without changing the flavor much.
They also both make you thirsty so soda manufacturers tend to increase both in sych to keep the taste about the same but make the soda far less thirst quenching.
Salt isn’t a flavor, it’s a flavor enhancer.
I respond to every single one of these that pop up because we are still working on corporate backed bad science. Salt is not bad for you, neither is fat. Sugar is always bad for you and the amount of it you need for it to stop food from going bad is almost hilarious. What canned foods use is a combination of things, one of them being the actual canning process, the combination of boiling to kill as much as possible and then vacuum sealing it means that as long as there is no break in the seal the food is good basically til the end of time.
Y’all motherfuckers need some Alton Brown. Regular table salt does not really have its own flavor or spice, it enhances the flavor of whatever it’s combined with, for example when you eat just salt, what you taste is your own saliva and probably your tongue, cheeks, etc.
@rdyoung @Hugin
Which corporations funded the bad salt science you failed to provide any reference to? I can find oodles of peer reviewed science that says excess salt contributes to coronary disease and strokes.Which corporations funded the bad fat science you failed to provide any reference to? I can find oodles of peer reviewed science that says excess fat contributes to coronary disease, obesity and cancer.
Bye bye nonsense and disinformation.
