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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is salt really bad for you?
« on: 25/05/2016 17:19:14 »Doesn't answer the obvious question, that if my blood pressure if excellent, should I still shy away from salt?
I would say crisps, but most of the crisps have replaced salt with flavourings, so the salt content is way down on what it use to be.
It seems that there is a chronic rise in blood pressure with increasing salt burden over time. No one knows why, but salt does appear to affect endothelial function (lining of blood vessels), which might be part of the reason. The evidence is substantial that genetically-matched individuals who are / are not exposed to salt intake have higher and lower blood pressures respectively, as they age.
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