28/01/2024
Each year, unhealthy diets shave hundreds of millions of disability-free years off of people’s lives.
What are the worst aspects of our diets? Four out of five of the deadliest dietary traps involve not eating enough of certain foods—not eating enough whole grains, fruits, nuts, seeds, and vegetables—but our most fatal flaw is consuming too much salt. A sodium-heavy diet is on the order of 15 times deadlier than diets too high in sugar-sweetened drinks like soda, for example.
Where’s sodium found? Really crappy foods. So, it’s hard to know if increased salt intake is just a marker for a bad diet overall. But we do know that salt and high blood pressure are cause-and-effect. We have more than a hundred randomized controlled trials demonstrating that if you cut down on added salt, your blood pressures fall, and the more you cut down, the better. Part of the mechanism may actually be the damage salt may do to your microbiome, the friendly flora in your gut.
Join us on February 2 at 2pm ET for our next webinar, "How Not to Age Book Club (2/4)" where we will cover Part II: The Optimal Anti-Aging Regimen. Registration closes January 31. Make a donation at https://see.nf/3uIBlIu to support NutritionFacts.org and as a special reward you can attend this live four part webinar series hosted by Dr. Greger!
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Watch the video “Fewer Than 1 in 5,000 Meet Sodium and Potassium Recommended Intakes” at https://bit.ly/3JWW4uU to learn more.