16. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Jun 28, 2006, 5:44 am PDT

I grew up eating lots of salt and like someone said its an addiction--lower your intake and your taste for it will gradually decrease. I can't stop eating salty foods but I do try to eat as natural as possible and use other things besides salt for flavor. To boost flavor I use garlic salt, chicken broth, parmesan cheese. Good luck

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17. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Jun 28, 2006, 7:08 am PDT

Well, looks like I'm going to die.

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18. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Jun 28, 2006, 7:09 am PDT

Well, looks like I'm going to die.

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19. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Jun 28, 2006, 9:23 am PDT

Doctors what do they know. One minute this is bad for you, the next it is good for you. If you want salt, eat the darn stuff.

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20. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Jul 01, 2006, 3:49 pm PDT

Try sea salt it has no sodium . There's a store in North Carolina . The salt is a little damp and grey in color ,but I use less than the Mortons . Find it on the computer .

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21. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Jul 13, 2006, 11:26 am PDT

my mother is only 36 with very high blood pressure she had a stroke last year and she has just went back to the hospital and they are deciding whether they are going to put a cathador in her heart or give her 3 different meds

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22. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Jul 13, 2006, 11:26 am PDT

my mother is only 36 with very high blood pressure she had a stroke last year and she has just went back to the hospital and they are deciding whether they are going to put a cathador in her heart or give her 3 different meds

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23. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Jul 13, 2006, 11:26 am PDT

my mother is only 36 with very high blood pressure she had a stroke last year and she has just went back to the hospital and they are deciding whether they are going to put a cathador in her heart or give her 3 different meds

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24. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Jul 13, 2006, 11:27 am PDT

my mother is only 36 with very high blood pressure she had a stroke last year and she has just went back to the hospital and they are deciding whether they are going to put a cathador in her heart or give her 3 different meds

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25. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Jul 15, 2006, 3:52 pm PDT

I like salt but not the side effects so I switched to KCL (potassium chloride) salt substitute. It tastes just like salt. Is this bad?????

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26. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Jul 17, 2006, 8:54 am PDT

Salt is not the only thing bad for you, we should focus on eating well balanced diets with plenty of fresh fruits and veggies, exercize, and plain water. If we can do that, most of the smaller things like salt and fat content will start to take care of itself.

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27. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Jul 17, 2006, 10:46 am PDT

Okay, so now the nutrition Nazis have outlawed meat, fried foods, sugar, salt, artificial sweeteners, butter, cheese, margarine, ketchup, olives, chips, pretzels, the list grows daily. Guess they won't be happy until we are all living on organic raw vegetables, beans, and tofu. You may live 100 years doing that, but it will seem like 300 years.

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28. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Jul 17, 2006, 11:27 am PDT

Giving up salt is HARD. Believe me, I was the biggest salt addict going. But when my blood pressure stopped being on the cusp to very high I knew I had to stop acting helpless and take charge. You have to really work at losing the salt habit and start reading every label and every serving size they relate to. I learned the hard way that a small mg of sodium doesn't always mean it is great to consume. Low sodium tuna for example has 45 mg of sodium and I thought that was great, than I re-read the label and it was for a serving of approx 1/4 of the can. Use Mrs. Dash in place of salt for cooking, use lemon and lime juice and low sodium broths. I have even gone from using canned or bottled spaghetti sauce to using fresh chopped tomatoes on pasta. I have lost about 40 pounds so far and feel great. It is hard to give up, but it is so worth it.

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29. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Jul 17, 2006, 1:46 pm PDT

I am going against the grain on this one and disagreeing to some extent about the need to reduce salt intake. As a grad student in Pharmacology I'm not a doctor yet, but part of diet planning is the need to understand why a food does what it does. In the case of salt, its mechanism of action is far oversimplified here. If you are generally healthy, have fully-functional kidneys, are a normal weight, and are active, then in my humble opinion eat as much salt as you want. Go buy yourself a salt lick for that matter. Salt may raise blood pressure slightly, but the reason is simply fluid retention. That is not inherently harmful as long as you live a healhty lifestyle. The reason blood pressure is so important is because a chronic rise in blood pressure is usually related to some underlying vascular disease (i.e. atherosclerosis, hardening of the artery walls, etc.). Salt does not cause these diseases to develop, it primarily just exacerbates the symptoms of the disease. Which in an unhealthy person could mean a big problem, but in someone with healthy arteries it means absolutely nothing.

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30. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Jul 17, 2006, 3:14 pm PDT

What I did years ago after being diagnosed with hypertension, was to banish salt entitrely from diet for 1 month to re sensitize my jaded taste buds. after that , I slowly introduced small quantities of salt and was surprised at how little salt I required for foods to be satisfyingly salty. Going off it completely for a period of time and then retuning using a tenth of what you formerly used is my reccomendation.

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