Cutting back on salt may not be as beneficial for your heart as once thought, a new study suggests.
While a diet low in salt reduces blood pressure, it increases the levels of cholesterol, fat and hormones in the blood that are known to increase the risk of heart disease, the study found.
Overall, the good and bad consequences of a low-salt diet may cancel each other out, so the diet has relatively little effect on the development of disease, said study researcher Dr. Niels Graudal, of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark.
http://www.livescience.com/16959-salt-diet-heart-health.html?utm_content=LiveScience&utm_source=@LiveScience&utm_medium=twitter
So if lower blood pressure equates to lower risk of CVD, and lower salt levels decrease blood pressure, then how could it be that low salt diets don't lower risk of CVD?
In short, high blood pressure is a symptom of a high carbohydrate diet. It results when the body retains sodium due to excessive insulin levels. So, the key factor isn't how much salt you eat, it's how much your body retains. Even though treating the symptoms of the illness - metabolic syndrome - somewhat results in decreasing risk of CVD, lowering salt or medically lowering blood pressure is still only treating a symptom. In this way, low salt diets and BP meds are just like statins and just like gout medications.
Eat meat, vegetables, nuts and seeds, little fruit or starch, and no sugar/wheat.
While a diet low in salt reduces blood pressure, it increases the levels of cholesterol, fat and hormones in the blood that are known to increase the risk of heart disease, the study found.
Overall, the good and bad consequences of a low-salt diet may cancel each other out, so the diet has relatively little effect on the development of disease, said study researcher Dr. Niels Graudal, of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark.
http://www.livescience.com/16959-salt-diet-heart-health.html?utm_content=LiveScience&utm_source=@LiveScience&utm_medium=twitter
So if lower blood pressure equates to lower risk of CVD, and lower salt levels decrease blood pressure, then how could it be that low salt diets don't lower risk of CVD?
In short, high blood pressure is a symptom of a high carbohydrate diet. It results when the body retains sodium due to excessive insulin levels. So, the key factor isn't how much salt you eat, it's how much your body retains. Even though treating the symptoms of the illness - metabolic syndrome - somewhat results in decreasing risk of CVD, lowering salt or medically lowering blood pressure is still only treating a symptom. In this way, low salt diets and BP meds are just like statins and just like gout medications.
Eat meat, vegetables, nuts and seeds, little fruit or starch, and no sugar/wheat.
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