The High Blood Pressure And Sodium Connection: Is Salt Raising Your Blood Pressure
That is what recent research is telling us about sodium s role in managing blood pressure. Hypertension, it turns out, is not caused by too much salt. Neither is it lowered by simply cutting salt out of your diet. So how is it that table salt sodium is still getting such a bad rap and being linked to high blood pressure. The real culprit it turns out is not salt, but how your body manages sodium and its proportion to the amount of potassium, calcium and magnesium in your body. Scientists have discovered that deficiencies in potassium, calcium and magnesium have a much greater impact on blood pressure than the mineral salt. These other minerals are so important in controlling blood pressure that when they are out of balance with each other, they can make salt more of a threat to healthy blood pressure. The fact is that only about 10 percent of the population is considered salt sensitive. It is this relatively small...