What salt does do to your food and body - The Food Chain podcast, BBC World Service

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[@durdonakamilova3855]

In my country Uzbekistan each meal is salty,especially in restaurants, but unfortunately it is normal for people,but anyway young generation starts to eat less salty dishes❤

[@Kim-z6i3l]

Whatever FDA says I try to avoid it. I found myself in this rabbit hole of so many industry lies when I read "The 23 Former Doctor Truths". Its no wonder why Doctor left her career.

[@M_SC]

That’s a typically simple minded stupid thing to do. You know other countries exist right? The FDA is just American.

[@jaram2369]

I actually have an opposite issue to most. I eat a more plant based diet, cut out ultra processed and pre packaged foods, don't eat out and have very little meat weekly. I was prone to extreme fatigue often my doctor told me to salt my dishes fairly generously, this is also paired with the low blood pressure that runs in our family. I feel much better with more salt in my diet. That said, I am still under reccomended guidelines. For those of you cutting back on salt, the secret to making most dishes delicious with an abscence of salt is to add acidic flavors. Lemon, lime, tomato or vinegar make most dishes amazing.

[@M_SC]

That happens to me when i go on a “eat at home” diet including lots of meat and cheese. And yet after not long, like 2 weeks, I’ll feel horribly tired in a weird way. Salt was the answer.

[@zando5108]

Hong Kong and Japan have the number 1 and 2 highest life expectancy and have an average daily salt intake of 8.8 grams and 9.9 grams - almost double the 5g upper limit by WHO. I wonder if these are confounded by the ultra processed foods and meats that westerners often find most of their salt comes from

[@pebblesandwoowoo]

Some of our food contains sodium nitrate which is a salt but very concentrated. You will find different sodiums in a lot of our foods, not necessarily just salt. So it's easy to eat too much and not know. Our "fresh meats" are packed with them. The Eastern diet is very fresh and ful of fish and rice, good cards and loads of veggies which many here don't often eat, at least in the quantities of Eastern cuisine.

[@PSA78]

Correlation doesn't equal causation. There's all sorts of funny statistics comparing things.

[@M_SC]

@@pebblesandwoowoowhite rice is indeed a good carbohydrate but nutritionists don’t think so. The Japanese eat white rice.

[@michaelbanh4000]

Salt is good for your health. You need it to maintain nerve function, otherwise your body will fail. Like other things, too much salt may be bad, but a small amount of salt/sodium is essential for your body

[@StarlightJosh]

iodine deficiency can lead to goitre too

[@haritanone6264]

At the same time salt has a lot of microplastics and too much microplastic consumption can lead to reduced fertility and build up in our arteries, blood, testicles and other organs.

[@PSA78]

I don't believe anyone has said we shouldn't eat any at all.

[@ej7260]

The “lower intake of salt” publicity should be moderated. Too low intake of salt causes health issues, imbalance of electrolytes. As much as the program was interesting, apart from saying that with no salt you die, there wasn’t much said how important it is to intake a balance amount of good salt with good minerals, and how it’s essential for balanced amount of electrolytes in the body. “The world average” is not everybody.

[@Devp1006]

is anyone really at the risk of having too little salt? but I agree, they should talk about the importance of having SOME salt.

[@kazizahidhasan2679]

Could you suggest any alternatives to salt? Despite knowing the bad effects of salt, we can not leave them!!

[@poodledoodle2416]

Seasoning

[@ej7260]

Try SuperSalt. It’s low in sodium but tastes salty and has the beneficial minerals that a good salt should have.

[@doomce9504]

Mineral salt. Does taste different, but is more healthy option than regular sodium salt. It has potassium and magnesium in addition to sodium.

[@PSA78]

Seasoning will bring more flavour.

[@MrBemnet1]

As a black person in USA the recommendation is 1.5 gram

[@yanu3778]

without salt ' The Description is not Food....

[@yuenkwanhumble4668]

Do not eat grapefruit with salt!

[@marlan5470]

Carnivore diet needs the salt. Cut the sugar. Cut all sugar: rice, pasta, bread, potatoes, yams, sweeteners, vegetables. The best remedy for gout is red meat, salt and water.

[@PSA78]

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[@Whatsyouridea1996]

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[@seasonmists]

Please fix the title. It's not grammatically correct.

[@HoangNam-j8j]

🙄🙄🙄Never ask a chef about disease, always ask a smart doctor at big hospital

[@alanseymour1252]

What percentage of ancient cave people died because of not throwing salt into their food? Almost none I suspect.

[@Saintjohn2711]

They ate more potassium it seems

[@haritanone6264]

​​@@Saintjohn2711more potassium in the form of potassium chloride wouldn't be too bad compared to sodium chloride. I suppose it depends what is meant by the term, 'salt', as well, sodium chloride is not too good for health but potassium chloride may be a healthier alternative for those who need to get their blood pressure down.

[@Saintjohn2711]

@@haritanone6264 this isn't commercially available though for me, do they sell this in your area?

[@yuenkwanhumble4668]

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[@adamkunzoon474]

it is useless and foolish to take recomondations or even use of salt on human body by any shef which has no or very less knowldge about body chemistry

[@jaram2369]

Okayyy... maybe listen to more than the first 4 minutes?