Benefits of A Saltless Diet

A New England Journal of Medicine study (published January 20, 2010) concludes that minimizing the amount of salt you take by even a small amount could reduce your chances of getting heart disease, stroke and heart attacks as much as reductions in smoking, obesity and cholesterol levels.

According to the study conducted at the University of California San Francisco, Stanford University Medical Center and Columbia University Medical Center, “If everyone consumed half a teaspoon less salt every day, there would be between 54,000 and 99,000 fewer heart attacks each year and between 44,000 and 92,000 fewer deaths.”

The study adds weight to what I wrote about in my book, The Amazing Heart, which was published end of 2005. Back then, findings were already made that showed the relationship between a high consumption of sodium and hypertension, which was identified as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) (Framingham Heart Study 1948 and other subsequent studies, e.g., two studies in 1990’s; also refer to a much later Harvard Study published in British Medical Journal’s website on April 20, 2007, which claimed that cutting back on salt could reduce heart attack risk). However there was, I believe, no known direct correlation between sodium and heart disease, stroke or heart attacks and salt then. But in the few years preceding the end of 2005, without the shadow of doubt, I not only saw the direct link between salt and CVD, but also with all other chronic diseases or ailments as well. The work of writing the book indeed led to this tremendous revelation to me. (But it wasn't only this revelation, but a series of many revelations that culminated in an equation for long-term tip-top health.) Therefore, the book recommended lowering the deadly salt content in our foods, soups or drinks.

But it did not stop there; my book also recommended omission of sodium chloride from our diet, as it is a “garbaz” that would hurt the body. I know it’s extremely hard to follow a strictly saltless diet (and I find that to be true too, especially when I eat out or travel, since salt is so pervasive), but if at all possible, let’s cut it out. (Anyway, a lot of foods that nature provides us have sodium inside them.) This is because although as far as I am aware, this is not confirmed by scientific findings yet, the book predicted salt along with other garbaz to be linked to all chronic and degenerative diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease.

Perhaps for a start, I suggest that epidermiologists embarked on a quest to find a direct link between salt and the above three diseases, if they haven’t as yet started on it already.

But you need not wait for more confirmations on such and other diseases to avoid salt, as far as it's humanly possible!

Please heed the warning about the killer salt!

So much for now.

Here’s me wishing you “Happy Dieting by avoiding Salt!”
Ray
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