Salt

[mossrose]

Not quite..... you shouldn't sniff glue or swallow methanol. And I don't think cigarettes are any good either....

Oh, come on. You know I was referring to food.

Good grief.

[Jedidiah]

EGGzackly!!! Speaking of which, eggs are high in cholesterol, so don't eat them... um... strike that....

The cholesterol in eggs is mostly the good kind, LD cholesterol - I read somewhere.

[Jedidiah]

Oh, come on. You know I was referring to food.

Good grief.

Food is good.

[Catholicity]

Not quite..... you shouldn't sniff glue or swallow methanol. And I don't think cigarettes are any good either....

But you did say "everything"

[Jedidiah]

But you did say "everything"

We need a " Bah Humbug" button.

[rogue06]

Oh, come on. You know I was referring to food.

Good grief.

To be fair the same thing crossed my mind as well.

[Sparko]

The way my doctor told me is that sodium and potassium work together to balance the amount of water in your cells. Too much salt and your body retains water. Potassium can help to remove water, but too much potassium can give you a heart attack. So don't take potassium to counteract sodium. Although salt substitutes usually do contain potassium.

My doctor said most normal people should only eat about 2,000 to 3,000 mg of sodium a day, but most eat 4-5K per day. If you have healthy kidneys, it will remove the excess salt, unless you overload them.

of course he could have just been lying to me to steal all of my bacon.

[Zymologist]

I discovered Himalayan salt a couple months ago, salt that's mined and has a pinkish-red color. The reason I tried it originally was that I'd heard it's supposedly better health-wise than regular table salt, or even sea salt. I haven't noticed any difference in my health since using this salt (I've tried many things for my gut problem, and none of them have made any noticeable difference), but I can say this: Himalayan salt tastes better. I can't describe it, but it honestly tastes superior to the white salt. It's still salt, and tastes like salt, but somehow it just has a superior salt flavor to it.

[Sparko]

I discovered Himalayan salt a couple months ago, salt that's mined and has a pinkish-red color. The reason I tried it originally was that I'd heard it's supposedly better health-wise than regular table salt, or even sea salt. I haven't noticed any difference in my health since using this salt (I've tried many things for my gut problem, and none of them have made any noticeable difference), but I can say this: Himalayan salt tastes better. I can't describe it, but it honestly tastes superior to the white salt. It's still salt, and tastes like salt, but somehow it just has a superior salt flavor to it.

I like sea salt. But I generally don't add salt to anything, except maybe as a very small sprinkle here and there. Most food already has enough salt for my tastes. I do like to put black pepper on just about everything. Lots and lots of black pepper.

[Catholicity]

I discovered Himalayan salt a couple months ago, salt that's mined and has a pinkish-red color. The reason I tried it originally was that I'd heard it's supposedly better health-wise than regular table salt, or even sea salt. I haven't noticed any difference in my health since using this salt (I've tried many things for my gut problem, and none of them have made any noticeable difference), but I can say this: Himalayan salt tastes better. I can't describe it, but it honestly tastes superior to the white salt. It's still salt, and tastes like salt, but somehow it just has a superior salt flavor to it.

It
has more trace elements in it which gives it more flavor.

[Sparko]

It
has more trace elements in it which gives it more flavor.

Wrong!!!!


It is soaked in the blood of yetis'. That is what gives it its pink color and unusual flavor.

[Carrikature]

Does that including doing things in moderation?


It isn't always science:

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How many thousands of times does this need to be posted until people here get it.

[rogue06]

How many thousands of times does this need to be posted until people here get it.

four foot one.

[Carrikature]

OK, this is my classic example of "leadership" on health....

When I was a kid, I was told in 5th grade health class to make sure I got enough iodized salt, or I would get goiter. They showed us horrible pictures of people with big growths on their throats, and I knew I didn't want to end up like that!

At a summer job in a steel factory, I was told "be sure to take salt tablets" and drink lots of water.

Then came the "salt will kill you", and the parade of "low sodium", "reduced sodium" and so on.

NOW, the Daily Mail (yeah, I know, it should only be used as toilet paper ) tells me if I don't use salt I'll have a heart attack!

What's the SCIENCE on salt consumption?

Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE your risk of a heart attack or stroke, claims controversial new research

And, yes, I note the word "controversial" prior to "new research"

Ignore the controversial. You need to pay more attention to keywords like "is linked to". You'll see this in a lot of reports on food. The reason? We can't isolate specific causes most of the time. We can list all the factors we know about and see what shows up as possible common denominators. That's what "is linked to" means: they found a common occurrence.

There's a significant difference between correlation and causation. News reports on food studies make it sound like causation, when the studies themselves rarely go beyond correlation.


Short of having consultations with registered dietitians about your typical diet in conjunction with information from various blood tests, you're not going to find reliable information on what you "should" be eating. You need something tailored to your physical health, not general concepts.

[Sparko]

I track my meals and sodium intake with an app called MyFitnessPal. Looks like my average sodium intake per day is about 2.5g