Salt in Daily Diet

[OakLeaf]

new strategy, stripping the links out of the spam? (not the first time I've noticed this week, but this is probably the most blatant)

Personally I'd rather have the messages removed entirely... but if this is automated and less work for the mods, then hear, hear.

[smilingcat]

new strategy, stripping the links out of the spam? (not the first time I've noticed this week, but this is probably the most blatant)

Personally I'd rather have the messages removed entirely... but if this is automated and less work for the mods, then hear, hear.

huh?? what??

Anyway, we excrete salt at our individual rate so guidelines are just guidelines. But definitly learn to listen to your body. I try to stay on low salt diet, well, cause Japanese diet is so high in salt. Now the other day, I had a hunkering for anchovies packed in oil. The uber salty kind. popped open a can and ate the whole thing in one sitting, right in the kitchen no less. The strangest thing was geeze, TJ's anchovies aren't salted. I opened another can about a week later and it tasted SALTY. Listen to your body. My helmet strap will get caked with minerals from my sweat. and I can get a mineral deposit line on my jersey after a long hot ride.

Low on salt and I get cramps, nausea and chills. Drink a sport drink and if it taste sweet get more salt into your system. If it tastes salty then you just dehydrated.

[OakLeaf]

huh?? what??

ha I guess the mods listened to me and pulled the message entirely.

There were a series of messages that went up in the last couple of days that were obviously spam, but had had the links stripped out.

Anyway, gone now. Thanks mods.

[sarahspins]

Drink a sport drink and if it taste sweet get more salt into your system. If it tastes salty then you just dehydrated.

I notice this more with something like nuun than with drinks containing sugar (all of those taste sickly sweet since I'm not used to drinking anything with sugar).. but if I need the salt, nuun tastes a little sweet. If I don't need the extra electrolytes, I almost can't stand it because it tastes like drinking flavored salt water... gross

[firenze11]

Hm, I was just thinking about this today. I'm training for another 2 day breast cancer walk and last year I'm pretty sure I became hyponatremic or at least had a problem with salt/electrolyte loss. It made me feel really sick and I don't want to feel that again so I've been trying to think of what to do this year.

Anyway I went for about a 5 mile hike/walk up Mont Royal park and took some nuun in my water this time. It tasted pretty good, definitely not salty. But by the time I'd come back home all I could think about was wanting something really salty and right now!

I also have low blood pressure and I tend to crave salt a lot so I just kind of go with it. It is kind of amazing to think back at how precious a commodity salt used to be and how prevalent it is now.

[smilingcat]

shootingstar had posted some links to the "too much salt" article.

I think one of the trick manufacturers use to get you to buy their pre-pkg'ed food is to layer with fat, salt, and sugar to make it yummy. Its not the "umai" yumminess but people have been so conditioned to think fat, salt, and sugar is yummy (blach for me).

All pre-pkg'ed food taste like it's been soaked in the dead sea for few days with all that salt. There is no real flavor except for the fat, sweet, and salty taste. Besides, salt, fat and even sugar is cheap compared to real flavoring, so the manufacturer of the pre-pkg'ed food can bigger their money.

If you want to consume less salt, stop eating all that frozen food. and start cooking a home.

[firenze11]

Just saw this article from the CBC. Saltier foods sold in Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/200...l.html?ref=rss

Part of me is surprised, part of me is not. I would have thought it would be easier to standardize the recipe in various countries, but I guess not.

[shootingstar]

Maybe the food manufacturers want to pump up more sales in Canada.

Actually some of the food network cooking shows aren't too healthy for how some chefs just liberally salt their food. I am being critical because many people are highly influenced by TV/visual images.