The amount of salt present in today's diet is nothing short of insane. You can't go anywhere today without being confronted with a ton of salt.
I don't see anything wrong with cooking on the lighter side with less salt and letting people add more if they want to. The manufacturers are incredibly stubborn about this, and make it very difficult for people to reduce their sodium consumption if they really want to.
The same with sugar content — and, yet, whenever they leave out salt and/or sugar, the price goes up along with blood pressure readings
There's a myriad of factors involved with the economics of food production. The most obvious of which is demand. Creating a new product, such as Reduced Fat Oreos, will necessarily cannibalize existing product lines. Hence, a higher margin is needed to make the production profitable.
I wonder what proportion of excess sodium in peoples' diets is derived from the excess calories they consume -
It is simple: never eat processed or restaurant food. Never add salt. Don't have it in the house. I don't. My sodium intake is about 200 mg/day (from the trace amounts present in vegetables and fish). I get to taste the real flavors of food, spices and herbs.
Trying to cut partway is too complicated. Just cut it out entirely.
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Special foods are not required for this diet. Eliminating salty foods from your diet and reducing the amount of salt used in cooking are important steps. Hiding your salt shaker is not enough to cut back on sodium as 75% of our salt intake comes from packaged foods alone!
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Great advice :) I recently wrote an article on this as part of the DASH diet, and I completely agree.
It is true that the salts in food should be minimal.the sugars and salts when lessened can make the diet better and healthy.
That day I was pretty scared because for some reason my blood pressure was higher than normal, maybe too much salt and stress combined, but when I am not stressed out or in the morning before eating, my normal numbers were 140/80 but I went to the doctor and they gave me levodyn and now my numbers are in the 120's and hight 60's/low 70's.
More consuming of salt in diet cause high blood pressure though salt is a source of Iodine which prevent from Goiter but excess of it is harmful.Thanks for such a nice blog.
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