Healthy Salt Substitutes | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
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🗓️ 13 April 2023
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Summary
Want to cut salt out of your diet? Here are five healthy salt substitutes that are packed with flavor and won't leave your food tasting bland.
The average person eats nearly one and half times the amount of sodium they need each day. Learn from Dr. Neal Barnard how the constant bombardment of salt puts them at higher risk for major health problems like high blood pressure, kidney disease, and stroke.
He joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast with heart-healthy alternatives and a closer look popular sodium-free salt substitutes sold in stores.
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- Best salt substitutes
- What foods have the most salt?
- Sodium found naturally in food vs. added salt
- Healthy iodine sources
- How much fat should we eat?
- Nutrient requirement changes as you age
- And more!
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| 0:00.0 | Salt is not a benign thing and it can raise your blood pressure and if your blood pressure |
| 0:07.4 | is too high, what are you looking at? |
| 0:09.0 | You're looking at a higher risk of stroke in particular. |
| 0:11.4 | So yes, it's a problem. |
| 0:13.2 | The problem that most of us think about is stroke and there's just no question about it. |
| 0:17.2 | A high salt intake brings you down that road. |
| 0:19.2 | Is it true that actually having a lot of salt in your diet can harden your arteries as |
| 0:24.1 | well? |
| 0:25.1 | And when your salt intake goes up and your blood pressure goes up, the force is the physical |
| 0:30.2 | forces on the artery walls are higher and so it's going to accelerate catheterosclerosis |
| 0:34.2 | too. |
| 0:35.2 | And a high blood pressure which is driven by salt is one of the prime cardiac risk factors. |
| 0:47.9 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:51.9 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:55.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us, coast to coast in the US and |
| 0:59.3 | in more than 150 countries. |
| 1:02.1 | Hi to everyone listening in, Spotswood, New Jersey, St. Augustine, Florida and Tallinn, |
| 1:08.6 | Estonia. |
| 1:09.9 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:14.8 | This is episode 34 of season 6, number 430 overall. |
| 1:21.6 | It is a fact that the average person eats more than one and a half times the amount of |
| 1:27.8 | salt that they need every day and that can put their health at high risk. |
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