90% Of People At Risk From Hidden Salt

Sea Salt and Potassium Can Be Good Replacement for Salt in Your Diet The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that even though Americans should only be eating one teaspoon of salt a day, only one out of ten of us actually keep to those guidelines. Those at risk are supposed to have even less, 2/3 of a teaspoon, and oddly enough, even less of them, one out of 18, keep to that goal. An article published in the Wall Street Journal highlights the struggles of us as Americans to limit the salt in our diet. It’s all been laid out. Too much salt causes hypertension, high blood pressure, edema, swelling, heart problems, osteoporosis and even death. Some places like New York City have taken it into even higher consideration, asking that restaurants cut out the salt in many of their recipes, to help New Yorkers, as a whole, eat less salt. And that’s not such a bad idea, maybe since most of the salt that we get comes from processed foods and outside foods, not the actual salt that we sprinkle on our dishes. Read the full Wall Street Journal story here www.online.wsj.com So, what can we do to make sure that the salt we take in isn’t killing us?   The first key here is to give up table salt for sea salt. I have said it time and time again. Sea salt is a much healthier option for us. When we eat table salt, it is rock salt. What we do in order to make rock salt edible is remove the water from it when it’s heated up. But once it’s in our bodies, it attracts the flui...
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