whatch what I Eat

[bpchronicle]

I see a lot of poeple say this but I am not sure if they really know what this means. OK so you stopped going to McDonalds, but what kinds of thing are you buy at the store. There is more than one blood pressure enemy lurking around the grocery store shelves. every one knows the big one SALT. It is bad enough that you can't find anything in a grocery store that does not cantain it. The second Ethynol this is a known toxin enough said there. The less talked about but every bit as bad as the first two is HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. Yup the very worst sugar you can consume, In fact it is almost as bad as ethynol and is worse than salt as far as blood pressure goes. It also contributes to obesity. There is an article about this at www.bpchronicle.com should be a link to a video. If you are truly watching what you eat you should cut the salt and the fructose.


This discussion is related to systolic hypertension in young adults.

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Excerpt from Medical News Today article "Reducing Salt Does Not Lower Risk Of High Blood Pressure Or Deaths"

"Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek, M.D., Ph.D., set out to determine whether rates of death, illness and hypertension might be linked to urinary sodium levels in a study involving 3,681 adults. None of them had cardiovascular disease when the study began. 2,096 had normal blood pressure when the study started while 1,499 had their urinary sodium levels and blood pressure monitored right through from beginning to the end of the 7.9-year follow up period.

People with high salt intake have higher urinary sodium levels than those with low salt intake.

Among all the participants that were followed up, 50 people with low urinary sodium died, compared to 24 deaths among the medium urinary sodium levels and 10 deaths among those with high levels of sodium in their urine - the three groups were fairly similar in numbers.

They found that cardiovascular mortality risk was much higher among those with the lowest levels of sodium in their urine.

The researchers added that they found no link between hypertension risk and high levels of sodium. In other words, those with a higher salt intake did not have a greater risk of developing high blood pressure."

[grendslori]

Most people will watch the salt; the problem is that they forget to look at the serving size. A can of soup may have 8oomgs of salt but that is for HALF of the can of soiup, not the whole can. We try and stay away from ANYTHING thT IS PREPACKAGED AND EAT ONLY NATURAL THINGS. sO FAR i'VE LOST 25 LBS!!

Geez... I hate it when I hit that caps button!