Should We Be Worried About Salt?
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
How many times have you heard that we need to cut down on salt? But... do we actually? What does the science say about salt, our health, and who needs to worry about it? Is pink salt healthier than white salt? Is there such a thing as too low-sodium? In this episode, we chat with Dr. Robert Hunter, a nephrologist and researcher at the University of Edinburgh, to demystify the world of dietary salt. This is everything you need to know about sodium and the real challenge of reducing intake when it's hidden away in the places you least expect it. Get ready to shake up everything you thought you knew about your favorite seasoning.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to our resolution series. Every single week we are covering one of the most commonly made |
| 0:06.6 | New Year's resolutions and what the science has to say about it. |
| 0:09.4 | Before we get into this episode, I'm going to plug that we are also doing daily episodes over at our |
| 0:15.3 | membership on exercise and how to make it a long lasting habit. |
| 0:21.2 | Every day we're dropping a five minute mini episode tackling all the most |
| 0:24.7 | common things that may be holding you back from reaching your fitness goals for |
| 0:29.2 | 2024. But you know for today what are we going to talk about? |
| 0:33.0 | So today we are tackling something that we've gotten so many questions on over the years |
| 0:37.0 | and is actually something that we have never addressed which is honestly really rare because this is year five. I think this is year five of the |
| 0:44.6 | podcast like that's insane but we've never ever talked about salt when I grew up, I heard that salt was not good. If you had too much of it, it was going to give |
| 0:57.8 | you high blood pressure. I didn't know what that was before I went to medical school. |
| 1:01.6 | And that, you know, just cut back on the salt and yeah your |
| 1:05.1 | food's not going to taste so good. As a person who loves to salt their food |
| 1:09.1 | like every time I'm with my parents my mom yells at me for how much salt I put on my food and I'm always |
| 1:14.0 | telling her like mom it's okay because I don't have high blood pressure like it's |
| 1:16.6 | fine for me we are going to find out today what is the deal with salt is |
| 1:20.8 | it actually something that we should be worried about or is it something |
| 1:23.2 | that we don't have to be so strict about? And is it a good New Year's resolution to make to cut back on your |
| 1:29.1 | salt? Or is it okay to put a little salt on your vegetables because otherwise they don't taste so good? |
| 1:34.4 | Oh my god, salt makes everything taste better guys, not just vegetables. |
| 1:37.2 | Also like have you noticed every baking recipe? Like there's always a pinch of salt and all the sweet things? |
| 1:41.8 | Yeah, I think salt makes everything taste better. |
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