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Townsend, Montana | One thing that irks me is salt getting categorized with all sodium. Sodium is NOT salt. Yes, salt has sodium along with the chloride. But are the problems coming from a rock that is readily found everywhere in the world since the beginning of Man? Or are the problems coming from the sodium nitrate, sodium benzonate, monosodium glutamate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium ascorbate, sodium erythorbate, sodium propionate, etc. that are made in a factory and added to our highly processed foods?
I can't say for sure, but I'm betting my health that good old fashioned sodium chloride mined from the earth and served without the anti clumping agents isn't the problem and is actually necessary and good for my body.
I never had "high" blood pressure, but when I quit eating junk food and started on the Burns diet (can I call it that?) with a lot of home grown beef, my use of the salt shaker increased by at least 10 fold, and my blood pressure dropped over 20 points.
As always, YMMV. | |
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Salt in diet
