Comments on: CDC: Americans Consume Too Much Salt

By: Mary - Lower Cholesterol Diet

Mary - Lower Cholesterol Diet — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:21:23 +0000

Natural salt, like sea salt, isn’t bad for you. Its the over-processed, stripped down iodized salt and sodium that is so horrible.

By: Greg Marlow

Greg Marlow — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:44:45 +0000

A blanket recommendation to lower salt consumption is inadequate. Having too little salt can be a hell too. I should think that if your blood pressure is within normal limits and the concentration of salt in your food is below that of normal bodily fluids, there should be no concern for health problems.

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:18:25 +0000

Salt and sodium have gotten a bad reputation but if everyone would stop eating such high carb diets then this wouldn’t be a problem, in fact, we’d need more sodium in our diets!

By: Matthew steele

Matthew steele — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:50:29 +0000

Hello,
Why can’t people get it right? The report referred to sodium - not salt. The weigh of salt is approx 2.5x the weight of sodium in the salt. So that means that a recommendation of 1500mg of sodium per day is equivalent to 3750mg of salt - a bit tless than one teaspoon.
Unfortunately the term salt and sodium are used almost interchangeably so it’s quite easy to mix the two up. have a great day - matthew