{"id":7960,"date":"2014-08-15T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2014-08-15T13:30:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T17:30:17","slug":"using-more-salt-may-be-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/using-more-salt-may-be-good-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Using More Salt May Be Good For You"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Healthy Heart Needs More Than Pinch of Salt, Study Finds<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Photograph: Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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People who eat the least salt may be hurting their hearts, according to a study causing controversy because some of its findings clash with public-health efforts to lower sodium consumption.<\/p>\n

The results published yesterday in theNew England Journal of Medicine<\/a>showed the expected link between heart complications and high levels of sodium, which is known to boost\u00a0blood pressure<\/a>and cardiovascular risks. Those at the lowest end, as measured by the amount of sodium in their urine, were also at greater risk — a 27 percent increased chance of heart attack, stroke and death from cardiovascular causes, the study found.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a sweet spot for what the optimum sodium intake is,\u201d said Salim Yusuf, senior author of the paper and director of the Population Health Research Institute in Ontario. \u201cThe message is very simple: Moderation in salt intake. Avoid high and low levels.\u201d<\/p>\n

The researchers\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0a healthy range for sodium intake and concluded as many as 75 percent of Americans are in the zone. The issue is that national recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the\u00a0American Heart Association<\/a>\u00a0are in the lower area where cardiovascular risks may increase, Yusuf said in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing down to those levels may be harmful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The experts agreed that too much sodium is dangerous and it comes mainly from packaged foods and restaurant meals. Only a small proportion stems from salt added to a homemade meal or shaken on food at the kitchen table. It\u2019s important for consumers to read food labels to get a good sense of how much salt they consume each day.<\/p>\n

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The findings bolster a May report from the\u00a0Institute of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0that found U.S. dietary recommendations to reduce sodium intake to 1,500 milligrams a day for some people aren\u2019t fully supported by scientific evidence. The guideline writers should take the new evidence, that a range of 3,000 mg to 6,000 mg a day is linked to lower risk, into account, Yusuf said.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not likely to occur. Elliott Antman, president of the American Heart Association and associate dean for clinical translational research at\u00a0Harvard Medical School<\/a>, said flaws with how the study was conducted cast doubt on its findings. AHA is reinforcing its efforts to cut salt consumption, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Source: Boomberg<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Healthy Heart Needs More Than Pinch of Salt, Study Finds Photograph: Getty Images People who eat the least salt may be hurting their hearts, according to a study causing controversy because some of its findings clash with public-health efforts to lower sodium consumption. The results published yesterday in theNew England Journal of Medicineshowed the expected link between heart\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7961,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}