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Sodium/Potassium Balance

Americans are not only eating too much salt, the adverse effects of adding salt to our food are made worse by an inadequate amount of potassium in our diet. This concept has been around for several decades. Dr. Lewis K. Dahl’s experiments on rats at the...

Salt: Friendly Fire Aimed at You

Conflicts going on all over the world and stories of “collateral damage” along with unintended death and destruction from “friendly fire” are very common.  But would you believe that your salt habit may actually be prompting your...

Media Spin of IOM Report Out of Control

My phone has been ringing off the hook ever since the recent media release about salt from the Institute of Medicine (IOM for short) came out. “Did you hear, the New York Times is reporting that you don’t have watch your salt anymore” says one my...

Salt Substitute

I recommend the following article from the Times of Malta titled “Health Risks with Too Many Pinches of Salt.” The article focused on a recently released study published in the Malta Medical Journal which revealed that: Most chefs, whether working in...

High Blood Pressure—Facts Not Fiction

The following article titled “Top 15 Myths about Blood Pressure”, published in The Times of India, is worthy of your consideration. Kudos to Renita Tisha Pinto for such an excellent article.  The points raised are very much in line with our writings...