The New York Post:
http://nypost.com/2017/08/01/these-unhe ... r-bad-rep/Lainaa:
Salt
Conventional wisdom once held that too much salt in the diet triggers hypertension — and ratchets up the risk of strokes and heart attacks — by ballooning blood vessels with retained water. Luckily for potato chip lovers, sodium really doesn’t work that way.
“We’re starting to understand that we probably had it wrong about salt 40 years ago,” when federal intake guidelines first took shape, says cardiovascular researcher James DiNicolantonio, Pharm.D., author of “The Salt Fix” (Harmony Books). Since then researchers have learned that sodium’s action is buffered by other nutrients, such as the potassium found in bananas, watermelon, sweet potatoes and black beans. No wonder a large Canadian Journal of Cardiology study concluded in 2014 that the dangers of excess sodium are “exaggerated.”
In general, adults can safely have up to 6,000 milligrams of sodium a day with no ill effects, DiNicolantonio says — more than the 3,000 to 4,500 mg most Americans now consume. But if you have a medical condition that necessitates slashing salt, such as kidney disease, the most efficient way to cut back is to simply cook and salt your own meals, as overseasoned restaurant and packaged fare accounts for a whopping 71 percent of sodium in the American diet.
Kirjaudu sisään
UKK
Etsi
