Low-salt diets may not be beneficial for all, study suggests

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  1. FreshAir

    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "Low-salt diets may not be beneficial for all, study suggests"

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160521071410.htm

    turns out low salt reduces blood pressure, but may actually increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and death

    crazy..... so first they say fat bad, and turns out not all fats, then salt....

    the old rule of moderation is best it seems is the best course of action.... anything done to excess is bad, but eliminating it completely may be just as bad

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    Uncle Ferd's g/f gets hungry when she tries to eat less...
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    dieticians have been discouraging severely restrictive diets for a long time now as counter productive, especially in geriatric patients. While the general recommendations are at less than 2 gms per day for some time in theory, dieticians have been recommending a 3 -4 gm sodium restriction for most moderate cardiac, renal insufficiency or CHF or lower extremity edema patients as more practical and realistic as a long term goal . its just too frustrating, too limiting and can impact intake negatively when you start restricting that much in the modern American diet.

    I almost never see an Rd recommended 2 gm diet anymore except in some chronic renal failure patients in the last stages or those with cirrhosis/ ascites , but I do see them come from Hospital doctors dealing with cardiac patients . Dieticians can't get rid of them fast enough. This is not really news to me.
     

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