Sodium, Sodium Everywhere! AUGH!!!

[Gatekeeper]

Is it just me, or is it darn near impossible to avoid sodium in foods?

I just ate a meal and calculated the sodium intake at around 1,459 mg — that was for two ham sandwiches, one cup Cheerios w/1 percent milk, a banana and 9 baby carrots.

Sheesh!

It seems about the only way to avoid sodium is to turn into a vegetarian or eat only fruit, veggies and home-cook everything else. Yeah, right, like I have time for home-cooking all the time on top of everything else life demands on a daily basis from me.

I'd rather try to control blood pressure via exercise and medication if necessary. Heck, even the low-sodium soups are still fairly high in sodium and tasteless (except I did find one good brand that has taste *and* half the sodium content of the company's regular product).

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[Imran Siddiqui]

Salt is yummy .

[Arrian]

It's particularly bad in a lot of "low fat" foods, because in order to make up for the tasty goodness of fat, they stick in a bunch of salt.

-Arrian

[Anodyne]

Go vegetarian!

[Graag]

Mmmm. Salt.

[The Mad Monk]

Sodium is everywhere.

Spray from ocean waves is picked up by the wind and quickly evaporates into tiny salt particles, which are the major 'seed' particles for rain drops.

[RGBVideo]

There was a anti-NaCl -campaign in food, here in Finland few years ago.
Surprised it hasn't hit there yet. Cutting down on meat would help a lot, for a start.

[Gatekeeper]

And they wonder why tens of millions of people in the United States alone have high blood pressure. Sodium has to play a significant role in that, IMHO.

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[Imran Siddiqui]

But it's GOOD!

[Lancer]

I have to eat extra salt (and a pill) because I have addisons and my body doesn't retain the stuff. Salt tastes sooo good to me.

[Buck Birdseed]

Recent studies show salt intalke is not nearly as harmful as previously thought. Don't worry about it.

[Az]

eating a lot of potassium should help get rid of it , IIRC.
( the K-Na-ATP-ase pump protein ).

[Lord_Davinator]

hmm... ya good for you blood pressure... unless you're high already...

[RGBVideo]

Recent studies show salt intalke is not nearly as harmful as previously thought

There are few things what make these "recent studies" both stupid and senseless, you see
the only study which I remember saying that was:
(a) American study
(b) A study was generously sponsored by food industry chain.

...so...

[Az]

Na is definetly bad, because the body has wayyy much more than it actually needs, due to the high concentration of Na on earth.

however, as I mentioned before, eating potassium triggers the K-Na-ATP-ase pump which pumps potassium from the blood stream, and sends Na(Sodium) out of the sell. This pump needs all three factors to function, and if we add more K (potassium) it would replace the Sodium more vigorously, and burn energy in the process.