Eating TOO LITTLE Salt May Cause Heart Attacks

[longknife]

Damn! What the heck are we supposed to believe? We hear time after time that eating salt is bad for you. Now comes this:

Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE your risk of a heart attack or stroke, claims controversial new research


Long-held that high-salt diet increases the risk of heart attack and stroke

Dramatic U-turn as new study suggests low-salt intake has same effect

WHO expert tells of 'disbelief' at study as he blasts the 'bad science'

WHO recommends people eat between 5 and 6g of salt each day

But, average person consumes twice that, eating 9 to 12g per day


I'm about to throw my hands up in the air and ignore every single bit of dietary advise that come along.

Read more: Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE risk of heart attack or stroke

 

[Harry Dresden]

Damn! What the heck are we supposed to believe? We hear time after time that eating salt is bad for you. Now comes this:

Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE your risk of a heart attack or stroke, claims controversial new research


Long-held that high-salt diet increases the risk of heart attack and stroke

Dramatic U-turn as new study suggests low-salt intake has same effect

WHO expert tells of 'disbelief' at study as he blasts the 'bad science'

WHO recommends people eat between 5 and 6g of salt each day

But, average person consumes twice that, eating 9 to 12g per day


I'm about to throw my hands up in the air and ignore every single bit of dietary advise that come along.

Read more: Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE risk of heart attack or stroke

you have to have some sodium to stay alive....there are people out there who kind of take the no salt thing a little to far....thats who they are talking about....

 

[shadow355]

Yes.

You need salt and potassium for proper heart function - as well as for the performance of the hearts "electrical system". A significant increase or decrease can cause a heart attack.

Quote - "Hyperkalemia is defined as a serum potassium concentration greater than approximately 3.5-5.5 mEq/L in adults"

"......levels exceeding 8.5 mEq/L can cause respiratory paralysis or cardiac arrest and can quickly be fatal."

Medscape: Medscape Access



Quote - "Of the body's potassium, 70% is found in skeletal muscle, and 28% is found in the liver and red blood cells, which means that 98% of the potassium in the body is in the intracellular fluid. The remaining 2% is found in the extracellular fluid. It is this 2% that is critical to normal cardiovascular and neuromuscular function, and it is what is measured in a serum potassium reading."

Electrolyte Imbalances | EMSWorld.com



The SA node is the hearts primary pacemaker, the AV Node is the hearts secondary pacemaker. "P" wave represents the atria - the QRS "Complex" is the Ventricles. "T" Wave is where the cardiac cycle starts over.

Just like a car battery, the electrical system of the heart needs "Electrolytes" to properly function.

Depending on the various text you read - Normal heart rates.

60 -100 for an adult
80-120 for a teen
100 -140 for a child
140 -160 for a infant



Salt imbalance - Cardiac Arrest.

Part 10.1: Life-Threatening Electrolyte Abnormalities

"Hypernatremia
Hypernatremia is defined as a serum sodium concentration >145 to 150 mEq/L. It may be caused by a primary gain in Na+ or excess loss of water


AGAIN - depending on the various text that you read.

A Radial Pulse = A Blood Pressure of at least 90 Systolic
A Carotid Pulse = A Blood Pressure of at least 80 systolic
A Femoral Pulse = A Blood Pressure of at least 60 systolic

A systolic blood pressure is about 90-100 for the average adult. Obese people it will be higher, and with the skinny geriatric patient that weighs only about 90 to 100 pounds....it will be lower.

Systolic Blood Pressure = The pressure against the walls of the blood vessels when the heart beats.

Diastolic Blood Pressure = The residual pressure inside the blood vessels / when the heart is in between beats.


AGAIN - vital signs vary between infants - children - teens and adults, as well as athletic people....those who work out and / or run daily....the vital signs will be much lower.



Shadow 355 ( Firefighter - Paramedic )

 

[aris2chat]

Damn! What the heck are we supposed to believe? We hear time after time that eating salt is bad for you. Now comes this:

Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE your risk of a heart attack or stroke, claims controversial new research


Long-held that high-salt diet increases the risk of heart attack and stroke

Dramatic U-turn as new study suggests low-salt intake has same effect

WHO expert tells of 'disbelief' at study as he blasts the 'bad science'

WHO recommends people eat between 5 and 6g of salt each day

But, average person consumes twice that, eating 9 to 12g per day


I'm about to throw my hands up in the air and ignore every single bit of dietary advise that come along.

Read more: Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE risk of heart attack or stroke

You need a bit of salt to keep blood pressure normal. Not enough and you can pass out or behave like you are mentally confused.

A salteen now and then, but also drink enough water.

Not an excuse to reach for the salt shaker. Most packaged or prepared foods have salt in them.

 

[aaronleland]

I hear that rare steak smothered in butter helps prevent AIDS. That's why I eat so much steak, and have so much unprotected gay sex.

 

[miketx]

Don't worry about it, we're gonna all die anyway.

 

[ZackB]

Not getting enough salt is not going to be a problem for most people due to high sodium levels in food.

 

[ZackB]

I hear that rare steak smothered in butter helps prevent AIDS. That's why I eat so much steak, and have so much unprotected gay sex.

Bear?

 

[miketx]

I hear that rare steak smothered in butter helps prevent AIDS. That's why I eat so much steak, and have so much unprotected gay sex.

Hate to tell you, but I'd bet that ain't butter. Here's just what your faggot ass needs.

 

[waltky]

Salt needs to have iodine in it...

Lack of Iodized Salt Causes ‘Serious Public Health Problem’ in Cambodia
April 08, 2017 — When Arnaud Laillou, a nutrition specialist with UNICEF, led a salt iodization study in 2014, he wanted to be sure that salt producers were not adding too much iodine.

Just four years earlier, UNICEF had stopped providing iodine to salt producers at the end of a decade-long, largely successful government-run iodization program. Laillou was stunned to find that 90 percent of coarse salt and 40-50 percent of fine salt was now not iodized. And all of it was labeled as iodized. “It was a real shock for us,” says Laillou of the findings of the paper that was published last year in the online journal Nutrients.

Serious public health problem

That paper said iodine deficiency in Cambodia had become “a serious public health problem” just years after the issue had largely been dealt with, and warned that poorer families and rural families were worst affected. That was at odds with a study carried out three years earlier that showed salt producers were adding iodine, and that authorities were enforcing a 2003 subdecree that mandated iodization.

Iodine is essential to brain development and hormonal functions. If a pregnant woman is iodine-deficient, for example, her baby’s brain will not develop properly. The mineral is vital for brain development in children, too, and for proper hormone functioning in all ages. Iodine is so important that the World Health Organization has described iodine-deficiency as “the [world’s] single greatest preventable cause of mental retardation.” Iodizing salt is widely regarded as one of the cheapest and most effective public health measures: it costs 2 cents per kilogram of salt.

Children hurt most

Iodine-deficiency, Laillou said, is particularly damaging for children. “For example, Cambodia is investing a lot of money at the level of the Ministry of Education to improve the education of their children,” he said. “But having a lack of iodine in the brain, it decreases [their] IQ by 13 points.” That, he points out, compares with the loss of three IQ points for a child who is not breastfed for the first six months of life.

Wholesale failure

See also:

Iodized salt made Americans smarter: Study
July 25, 2013 - Iodine appears to have made Americans smarter, the Daily Mail reports.

While the addition of iodine to salt originally was intended to eliminate goiters caused by iodine deficiencies, it appears to have had an unexpected consequence: Americans gained up to 15 IQ points after iodized salt became mandatory in 1924, a new study finds.

The National Bureau of Economic Research recently published a report by economists James Freyer, Dimitra Politi and David Weil that looked at intelligence data from roughly 2 million World War II enlistees born between 1921 and 1927.

The study, which compares the IQ levels of recruits born before 1924 with those born after that year, shows that those who ranked the highest were assigned to the Army Air Forces. Meanwhile, those recruits with lower IQ scores were sent to the Army ground forces.

The economists then researched likely iodine levels in recruits’ hometowns based on the occurrence of goiters in those regions, and they discovered that recruits born in low-iodine areas after 1924 were much more likely to be sent to the Army Air Forces than those recruits born before 1924. In fact, the average IQ of those slightly younger recruits was 15 points higher than that of older recruits. According to the report, the addition of iodine to salt might be one cause behind the Flynn effect, a long-sustained rise in IQ from roughly 1930 to the present.

Iodized salt made Americans smarter: Study

 

[gipper]

Damn! What the heck are we supposed to believe? We hear time after time that eating salt is bad for you. Now comes this:

Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE your risk of a heart attack or stroke, claims controversial new research


Long-held that high-salt diet increases the risk of heart attack and stroke

Dramatic U-turn as new study suggests low-salt intake has same effect

WHO expert tells of 'disbelief' at study as he blasts the 'bad science'

WHO recommends people eat between 5 and 6g of salt each day

But, average person consumes twice that, eating 9 to 12g per day


I'm about to throw my hands up in the air and ignore every single bit of dietary advise that come along.

Read more: Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE risk of heart attack or stroke

The very first thing you should BELIEVE, is NEVER believe what the government tells you.

 

[aris2chat]

Damn! What the heck are we supposed to believe? We hear time after time that eating salt is bad for you. Now comes this:

Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE your risk of a heart attack or stroke, claims controversial new research


Long-held that high-salt diet increases the risk of heart attack and stroke

Dramatic U-turn as new study suggests low-salt intake has same effect

WHO expert tells of 'disbelief' at study as he blasts the 'bad science'

WHO recommends people eat between 5 and 6g of salt each day

But, average person consumes twice that, eating 9 to 12g per day


I'm about to throw my hands up in the air and ignore every single bit of dietary advise that come along.

Read more: Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE risk of heart attack or stroke

The very first thing you should BELIEVE, is NEVER believe what the government tells you.

Mother nearly died from lack of sodium by drinking too much water.

 

[Muhammed]

Damn! What the heck are we supposed to believe? We hear time after time that eating salt is bad for you. Now comes this:

Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE your risk of a heart attack or stroke, claims controversial new research


Long-held that high-salt diet increases the risk of heart attack and stroke

Dramatic U-turn as new study suggests low-salt intake has same effect

WHO expert tells of 'disbelief' at study as he blasts the 'bad science'

WHO recommends people eat between 5 and 6g of salt each day

But, average person consumes twice that, eating 9 to 12g per day


I'm about to throw my hands up in the air and ignore every single bit of dietary advise that come along.

Read more: Eating too LITTLE salt may INCREASE risk of heart attack or stroke

You need a bit of salt to keep blood pressure normal. Not enough and you can pass out or behave like you are mentally confused.

A salteen now and then, but also drink enough water.

Not an excuse to reach for the salt shaker. Most packaged or prepared foods have salt in them.

Nobody needs an excuse to reach for a salt shaker. Sodium is an ESSENTIAL nutrient.

Hyponatremia can upset the your electrolyte balance, especially in neurons. It can cause your brain to retain so much water that hydro-static pressure builds up to such a point that the brain stem is squarshed into the foramum magnum causing instant death.


Similarly, low serum potassium levels can be deadly. Hypokalemia can cause cardiac arrest and kill you.

 

[Buck111]

Table salt (that white crap that Morton and some others sell) will kill you. It is not pure salt and is the cause of "bad cholesterol". Among other stuff your body does not need, table salt contains glass and sand. The glass and sand scratch the arteries in your body. Cholesterol (the one doctors call "bad" and isn't) coats these injuries in an attempt to protect from further injuries. And that is why some people have high cholesterol. So, yeah, table salt is bad for you.

But we need salt to live!

Yes, we do. Some people use Sea Salt, which is safer and better for them. BUT, the best salt is Himalayan Pink Salt. It is pure salt and contains roughly 85 nutrients. It is completely healthy and you can eat as much as you like of it. It comes in granules so you need a grinder.