Randomguy Posted January 19, 2020 Share #1 Posted January 19, 2020 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #2 Posted January 19, 2020 Yes, we use little or none, but get some in prepared foods. I use to be one that would salt before tasting, but I gradually weaned myself off salt and artificial sweeteners. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted January 19, 2020 Share #3 Posted January 19, 2020 Like sheep_herder, I don't add any salt, but I get a bunch through prepared foods. I used to love a salt bagel, but I find that too salty now (but still love salty pretzels). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #4 Posted January 19, 2020 No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 19, 2020 Share #5 Posted January 19, 2020 I should. I don't have salt at home nor add it at restaurants. But have /use soy sauce at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #6 Posted January 19, 2020 Just in the last six months. My PCP came up with the idea after she thought my blood pressure was a little high. She referred me to a cardiologist who agreed with her and he referred me to a nephrologist who agreed with the other two doctors. If your kidneys are working properly they do just fine regulating your salt. Mine are not working as well as they should anymore. I put a salt shaker on my wife’s tray when I serve her meals, I warn her that I haven’t used salt in cooking and she might need to add some. She sometimes adds a little. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #7 Posted January 19, 2020 Very little extra salt. I still use things like salted butter though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 19, 2020 Share #8 Posted January 19, 2020 Aside from what is used in cooking the only thing I put salt on is fresh cucumbers from the garden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 19, 2020 Share #9 Posted January 19, 2020 We do not add but I use small amounts when preparing some foods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted January 19, 2020 Share #10 Posted January 19, 2020 Not really, but it is more lifestyle lack of usage. I never was one that salted before tasting and almost never salt after tasting. Tend to avoid high salt prepared foods, the worst offender being commercially prepared soups which one would generally consider to be a health food. Salt is a cheap way to extend the shelf like and way overused by manufacturers as a preservative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted January 19, 2020 Share #11 Posted January 19, 2020 We neither watch our salt consumption nor use much. My wife uses more than me (she even salts her pizza which I find bizarre). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted January 19, 2020 Share #12 Posted January 19, 2020 Wo46 watches her salt intake. I've never really salted my food. The only thing that I really put salt on is eggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #13 Posted January 19, 2020 Yes. I have high blood pressure. I also use Morton's Lite Salt which is half potassium chloride instead of sodium chloride. Potassium is one of the few things that the American diet lacks especially if you sweat a lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #14 Posted January 19, 2020 Generally. I rarely add salt to anything. Fast food always tastes too salty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #15 Posted January 19, 2020 11 hours ago, Randomguy said: Do you watch your salt intake? Nope. And like PZ, my wife uses more salt than me, but also does more of the cooking, so I get plenty of salt - except in the summer when I ought to supplement with the Lite Salt like Jerry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share #16 Posted January 19, 2020 2 hours ago, Prophet Zacharia said: (she even salts her pizza which I find bizarre). Salting pizza makes it so much better. I used to do it years ago, but then switched to Louisiana Hot Sauce for some pizza and weened off the salt. Some cheese is namby-pamby and needed the extra flavor is what I thought. Salt is in every damn thing, though, and in large quantities. I previously felt that I didn't really have to watch my intake because of the exercise and sweating and such, but I haven't been exercising and sweating at all, so there goes that out the window. I am going through my salty processed foods, and am getting closer to having little of it on the way to none of it. Sauerkraut may be the exception, though. What do you use instead of salt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #17 Posted January 19, 2020 No, unless its 90° and I'm riding a century. Then I intake lots. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted January 19, 2020 Share #18 Posted January 19, 2020 I watch it. It is bad but salt is my favorite flavor. I don't think I've ever eaten anything salty that I didn't like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted January 19, 2020 Share #19 Posted January 19, 2020 Don't watch Don't add Don't each much processed foods 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted January 19, 2020 Share #20 Posted January 19, 2020 50 minutes ago, Randomguy said: Salting pizza makes it so much better. I find pizza to be salty enough without adding more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted January 19, 2020 Share #21 Posted January 19, 2020 28 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: Don't each much processed foods To each his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #22 Posted January 19, 2020 Salt is a necessary ingredient in some foods (bread) and overused in others (processed). I cut back on salt intake about ten years ago so I wouldn’t have to go cold turkey when I got older. It sure if it helps or not, but I believe it’s better for long term health. Don’t miss it and can tell when it’s overused. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted January 19, 2020 Share #23 Posted January 19, 2020 34 minutes ago, Road Runner said: To each his own. Yup, it's wasn't a condemnation, just a statement about me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #24 Posted January 19, 2020 Yes, I watch my intake... which usually means, "Yes, I know I'm being bad." 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted January 19, 2020 Share #25 Posted January 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Square Wheels said: Yup, it's wasn't a condemnation, just a statement about me. I didn't take it that way. I was making a comment about your "Don't each much processed foods". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #26 Posted January 19, 2020 3 hours ago, Road Runner said: I watch it. It is bad but salt is my favorite flavor. I don't think I've ever eaten anything salty that I didn't like. Salt and vinegar chips? They are strong! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 19, 2020 Share #27 Posted January 19, 2020 4 hours ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: Salt and vinegar chips? They are strong! One or two of them is satisfying but it is a fine line between there and sickening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 19, 2020 Share #28 Posted January 19, 2020 Just now, Airehead said: One or two of them is satisfying but it is a fine line between there and sickening. Yup! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted January 20, 2020 Share #29 Posted January 20, 2020 For many foods, I don't use salt at all, but I do want some on fresh veggies and beef. Sometimes I'll use alternatives or things that lessen salt. On french fries, I'll often drizzle them with vinegar and use just a little salt. I mainly try to keep my salt down by using commercial light salt, which is 33% to 50% sodium chloride, the rest beneficial potassium chloride. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating (©2005) says: "Getting extra potassium in your diet, from food, from potassium salt, or from supplements, can lower blood pressure. In so doing it also reduces the chances of having the kind of stroke caused by the blockage of blood flow to the brain. Bananas are famous for the amount of potassium they contain. But many other fruits and vegetables are also good sources. These include apricots, dates, kidney beans, oranges, and spinach. Although the best way to ensure an adequate potassium intake is by eating lots of fruit and vegetables, potassium salt can be helpful to people with hypertension, those who take diuretics, or heavy coffee drinkers. Don’t take potassium supplements unless you have discussed this with your physician, because they can be deadly when the kidneys aren’t working properly." A study by the National Institutes of Health: Impact of Light Salt Substitution for Regular Salt on Blood Pressure of Hypertensive Patients In conclusion, potassium-enriched light salt substitution for regular salt was efficient in reducing hypertensive patients' BP in this study. Thus, the long-term implementation of that change could be interesting to reduce population hypertension and even mortality due to CVD. Health care professionals could use these results to explain to their patients how sodium intake can raise BP and encourage them to reduce it by using light salt. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4375656/ I usually used Morton Lite Salt - I rarely see Lo Salt in the stores .I haven't seen Morton Salt Substitute in the stores but I'll look for it - it's ridiculously priced online. It has no sodium, is roughly 50% Potassium Chloride and some other stuff including silicon dioxide - which is sand! Note that salt is called for in some cooking to regulate rising in breads, regulate the gain or loss of water by things being boiled, etc. Lite Salt should be ok but a salt substitute would not provide the right ionic strength. Note that scientists agree that too much salt promotes high blood pressure, but they do not agree if reducing salt lowers blood pressure. Mine is typically 130/80 and if it ain't broke, I'm not going to try to fix it! The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating is very careful not to promote fads, so it's warnings about too much salt should be taken seriously: SODIUM Most of us get more sodium than we need. It’s hard not to. Prepared foods are often loaded with table salt, which is one-third sodium. A cup of boxed macaroni and cheese or an order of Burger King salted French fries can deliver more than 1,000 milligrams of sodium. And it’s often found where you least expect it—a cup of pasta sauce can have almost half of a healthy daily salt allotment. (See the table on page 200.) Although the “Daily Value” for sodium listed on food labels is 2,300 mg, the average person needs less than 1,000 mg/day to keep systems in good working order. That’s less than 1/2 teaspoon of salt. The average American gets 3,500–4,000 mg of sodium. The excess is excreted, but not always before it can do some damage. Excess sodium mainly pulls water from cells and thus increases blood pressure, especially in people whose genes make them more sensitive to salt. While scientists agree that too much salt promotes high blood pressure in some people, there has been curiously little agreement over whether reducing dietary sodium lowers high blood pressure. Cutting back on sodium is often one of the first things that health care providers suggest to people who have just been diagnosed with high blood pressure, along with stopping smoking and getting more exercise. The results of salt reduction studies have been inconsistent, but the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) II study, which carefully controlled the amount of salt in diets, showed that aggressively cutting back on salt had an important impact on blood pressure. As described in chapter 7, the first DASH trial clearly showed that eating more fruits and vegetables can substantially lower blood pressure. Thus, the most effective means of keeping blood pressure low combines weight loss, abundant intake of fruits and vegetables rich in potassium, and avoiding foods high in salt. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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