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Fleinsuppe t1_j5fyz0x wrote

Don't misunderstand, you do not need to salt your food unless you got a weird diet. Most people meet their salt needs from the food they eat. WHO, on salt reduction.

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PLaTinuM_HaZe t1_j5gdkpo wrote

This is more due to most people not getting enough potassium. Unfortunately most public health bodies realize the problem is more that people don’t eat enough potassium as you need sodium and potassium in balance. They’ve opted for the path that it’s easier to urge people to reduce sodium than for people to eat actual good food sources rich in potassium.

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Devil_May_Kare t1_j5gw82y wrote

Using lite-salt (1:1 mixture of sodium chloride and potassium chloride) to season your food isn't particularly difficult, and will bring your intake closer to balanced. I don't see why it isn't recommended more. Pure potassium chloride tastes bad, but mixed with sodium chloride it's just salty.

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PLaTinuM_HaZe t1_j5h9noc wrote

I actually will frequently add a teaspoon of lite salt to my water at work. I notice the electrolytes really help with my mental focus and clarity.

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jacknifetoaswan t1_j5hnavb wrote

I've been eating a predominantly low carb diet for over five years. Potassium and magnesium are always an issue, and if I'm not getting enough of the former, my heart will feel like it's beating out of my chest. Big, heavy thumps. A couple hundred mg of Potassium supplements, and I'm back to normal in like thirty minutes.

Electrolytes are important! They're also what plants crave.

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McWetty t1_j5hmpmj wrote

I put KCl in my fruit smoothies. It boosts the flavor quite a bit. Banana, KCl, beet juice, strawberries, kale, yogurt, and a scoop of chocolate protein powder makes for an amazing breakfast.

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not_cinderella t1_j5go0t8 wrote

>They’ve opted for the path that it’s easier to urge people to reduce sodium than for people to eat actual good food sources rich in potassium.

Interesting.

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MyUsernameIsAwful t1_j5h7oga wrote

You mean don’t put extra salt on a dish that already has salt in it, right? Because if you cook for yourself, pretty much every dish calls for some salt.

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Fleinsuppe t1_j5heqd5 wrote

Within the past 2-3 year I've salted a handful of meals, just of curiosity - each time confirming to myself that it was unnecessary ^^

Go without long enough and it becomes a mostly unwelcome addition. I once had to throw away 3/4 of a pizza I ordered, every slice was liking swallowing a teaspoon of salt. That was the one time I was unable to eat salty processed food though, otherwise it's perfectly tolerable.

Alternatives to salt, for me, is eating raw onion or chilli. It fills that type of craving. And those 1/100 days when I bother to make a nice salad, I'll add a bit of balsamico, which is hefty on salt I assume.

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jacknifetoaswan t1_j5hnqwc wrote

Except you absolutely need salt in your diet, both the mineral salts (sodium, potassium, magnesium) and the iodine that's a part of table salt. You literally can't live without it.

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cerylidae1552 t1_j5hz75v wrote

All these idiots in here forgetting that your goddamn NERVES need salt. People: if you are tired, sluggish, and have headaches all the time, but you avoid salt like it were poison: THATS WHY. YOU NEED SALT.

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WikiHowWikiHow t1_j5i0vql wrote

this has been happening to me, i barely eat as i’m on stimulants and have heard my whole life “drink more water eat less salt!!!” finally starting to realize that i blast through water everyday without putting any sort of sodium in my system

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SuperNovaEmber t1_j5hnzdm wrote

That's great you confirmed it to yourself. No culinary institute would pass you, but that's the hill you freely die on. Bravo.

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randompersonx t1_j5gfq1x wrote

I agree, but also want to point out that if you are trying to have a very clean diet, it’s very easy to end up with low blood sodium. I did this.

I switched to a diet of only one meal a day, and only these ingredients:

Proteins: steak, fish, chicken, shrimp, oysters, eggs, bacon

Veggies: lettuce, cabbage, tomato (yes I know, technically a fruit including a few others on this list, but we eat them as vegetables and they are low sugar), peppers, onion, olives, avocado, broccoli, cauliflower, broccolini.

Oils: extra virgin olive oil, organic virgin coconut oil, organic virgin avocado oil, grass fed butter.

Once I hit my goal weight I will add back whole milk, plain yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese… I’m just trying to avoid the carbs for now.

I’ve been really enjoying the diet, it’s been very easy to follow and I’m losing a ton of weight very fast and retaining muscle…. But I had a blood test and came by low blood sodium and had to start putting salt on everything to correct it.

The amount of salt in processed food and restaurant food is crazy high… and as soon as you start only having unprocessed food, it’s very very easy to end up low sodium.

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onetwentyeight t1_j5gsdlr wrote

Can you define clean as it relates to diet? What field is that a term of art in?

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randompersonx t1_j5gw289 wrote

Clean = no processed foods. No man made chemicals. No seed oils. Oils that can be extracted by cold expeller pressing or churning are okay.

Everything you eat is as close to the way it was when it was living at the time you eat it. Obviously cooking is okay, but best to bake instead of fry when practical.

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onetwentyeight t1_j5gy9o2 wrote

So what does the term "clean" offer over the more descriptive "unprocessed foods" which was part of the given definition?

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randompersonx t1_j5gz1vm wrote

Potato, po-ta-to.

There are also some foods which would probably meet the definition of unprocessed for many people which wouldn’t necessarily be considered clean by most people following they sort of diet … eg: fresh squeezed apple juice.

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Ixneigh t1_j5hqr7k wrote

What if you work outside in the tropics and sweat all day in the heat?

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Fleinsuppe t1_j5idyr6 wrote

I thought so too, but as the article states, we lose little salt through sweating.

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Ixneigh t1_j5j3h46 wrote

Not sure I go for that. I used to never salt anything, till one day I noticed I was sweating fresh water. Now I salt the eff out of stuff and I feel a lot better. I think I was chronically salt deficient.

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