You might hear a lot about how the use of too much salt in your food is bad for you – because it gives you high blood pressure and makes your body retain fluid; but just try going the other way and depriving your body of salt altogether. Salt is essential to health. It's just an excess of the stuff that's bad. If you have been battling hypertension or any of the other health problems that come from an excess of sodium in the system, you could find yourself looking at the business-end of a doctor-mandated low-sodium diet pretty soon.
It's not easy to go on a low-sodium diet, of course. If you have hypertension or fluid retention, often, the doctor will ask you to use no more than 4 g of salt a day. That's like just a teaspoonful of the stuff. How on earth could anyone live on that level?
It's not easy to go on a low-sodium diet, of course. If you have hypertension or fluid retention, often, the doctor will ask you to use no more than 4 g of salt a day. That's like just a teaspoonful of the stuff. How on earth could anyone live on that level?