Cut Back on Salt By All Means But Don’t Cut Back On The Good Stuff As Well.

Scientists around the globe recently have been issuing policy statements stating that we should reduce our intake of salt on a daily basis from 3,500 milligrams to between 1200 and 2300 mg a day.

Now it is an established fact that reducing sodium and 70 sodium intake can prevent hypertension and he and reduce the incidence is at risk of heart disease and stroke. This is very much a given fact

That danger is that people get too focused on reducing sodium and tend to view it as primarily the only thing they do to help treat their high blood pressure.

The other danger is that in that in their haste to cut back on the foods that contain sodium they also have cut back on more benevolent compounds such as magnesium, calcium and potassium as well. View the rest of this article