Salt restriction lacks credible evidence

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“Don’t worry, Doc. I eat really well. I completely avoid salt so I’m good.” I hear this multiple times per day. It is ingrained in our mindset that we need to avoid salt to be healthy. This must be steeper in solid, unquestionable scientific evidence, right? Not even close. Just as we have learned from the faulty science behind demonizing fat, we can say the same for salt. The New York Times: Scant evidence behind the advice about salt The American Heart Association recommends the general population eat less than 2.3 grams of sodium per day, with higher risk and heart failure patients eating less than 1.5 grams per day. That is less than a teaspoon of salt for the entire day! This recommendation is based on studies such as the DASH trial that showed a small blood pressure reduction in certain subsets of people with a low sodium diet. There was no outcome data to demonstrate fewer heart attacks or deaths, but the assumption was that it would lead to those unproven...
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