Comment on Most everyone can lower blood pressure by reducing salt, even those on BP drugs: Study
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
Or just replace sodium chloride with potassium chloride …harvard.edu/…/does-a-low-salt-diet-really-improv…
Low salt requires bland food prepped at home. Changing salt type might actually have a chance at making a dent in BP numbers because it doesn’t involve an immediate inconvenience (lack of flavor and convenience) for a long term payoff of less than 10% of a number that’s correlated with slightly lower chances of something happening years in the future.
leds@feddit.dk 1 year ago
Isn’t the lack of flavour / blandnness highly determined by what you’re used to? If you eat less salty foods for a while it would taste like before
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
Maybe, but that doesn’t solve the issue of the unpleasant, immediate consequence for a nebulous, far-off payoff. We’re not going to get better humans any time soon, so I think it’s not useful to focus on individual based solutions population level problems.
leds@feddit.dk 1 year ago
Fair, for solving it on population level it is also regulating how much salt manufacturers are allowed to put in ready made food , otherwise they will keep adding more and more salt becuase it selss better
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
That’s fine, but why not mandate it just be a different salt at that point. No reduction in flavor/sales plus health benefits. Again, simple reduction impacts taste and will have reduced efficacy based on that.