So over thanksgiving week we ate out every day OMG the salt!

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Anonymous wrote:Salt is one of the most important factors in cooking (and bodily health!). I'm glad people are finally seasoning their food.

Have you heard of the DASH diet? You should research the effects of a high salt diet on cardiovascular health.

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Anonymous wrote:Salt is one of the most important factors in cooking (and bodily health!). I'm glad people are finally seasoning their food.

Have you heard of the DASH diet? You should research the effects of a high salt diet on cardiovascular health.

DASH recommends around 2k milligrams of sodium.

This divided among the salt antagonists here would be enough sodium to last a lifetime.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. The thread about guilty pleasures and Oliveczgarden makes me WINCE. So much salt in restaurant meals.

So you serve bland food at home I assume?

DP why would anything be blamed? If you add salt while cooking it does little in terms of taste. Add a small amount of finishing salts when the plate is served and it increase the favors. I really do not need heavily salted rice or risotto because you really do not taste the salt.

Someone never learned to cook properly... It absolutely makes a huge difference if you don't salt while you cook.

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Anonymous wrote:Salt is one of the most important factors in cooking (and bodily health!). I'm glad people are finally seasoning their food.

Have you heard of the DASH diet? You should research the effects of a high salt diet on cardiovascular health.

Or maybe don't follow fad diets?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Salt is one of the most important factors in cooking (and bodily health!). I'm glad people are finally seasoning their food.

Have you heard of the DASH diet? You should research the effects of a high salt diet on cardiovascular health.

Or maybe don't follow fad diets?

lol, dash diet is not a fad diet. It’s a medically researched diet to reduce hypertension and heart disease.

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Anonymous wrote:Salt is one of the most important factors in cooking (and bodily health!). I'm glad people are finally seasoning their food.

Have you heard of the DASH diet? You should research the effects of a high salt diet on cardiovascular health.

Or maybe don't follow fad diets?

That’s like saying the Mediterranean diet is a “fad diet.” No, it’s a way people in Mediterranean countries have been eating for millennia. There’s nothing “fad” about it.

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Yum, salt.

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Anonymous wrote:Salt is one of the most important factors in cooking (and bodily health!). I'm glad people are finally seasoning their food.

Have you heard of the DASH diet? You should research the effects of a high salt diet on cardiovascular health.

Or maybe don't follow fad diets?

That’s like saying the Mediterranean diet is a “fad diet.” No, it’s a way people in Mediterranean countries have been eating for millennia. There’s nothing “fad” about it.

Sorry, I'd rather have more than one teaspoon of salt a day. I like food that tastes good.

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t use a lot of salt while cooking and do a lot of stuff from scratch. We have finishing salts that we use at the table. After eating out for a week I felt almost sick and bloated. There was just so much salt in and on everything. Anyone ever experience this?

I just got back from a 2 day trip and I am up 4 lbs. It’s the salt. This is the reason we never, and I mean never, eat out if we don’t have to.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Salt is one of the most important factors in cooking (and bodily health!). I'm glad people are finally seasoning their food.

Have you heard of the DASH diet? You should research the effects of a high salt diet on cardiovascular health.

Or maybe don't follow fad diets?

That’s like saying the Mediterranean diet is a “fad diet.” No, it’s a way people in Mediterranean countries have been eating for millennia. There’s nothing “fad” about it.

Sorry, I'd rather have more than one teaspoon of salt a day. I like food that tastes good.

We all like food that tastes good but sooner or later all that salt catches up to us. The research is crystal clear: high salt diets lead to hypertension, heart disease, stroke, etc…

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Anonymous wrote:Ehh, all of the food I ate over the holiday had a crap ton of salt in it. We ate mostly at home but we season well and yes, it's a lot of salt. That's what makes it taste good. Sure, I'm slightly bloated but for me life is too short to eat bland food. I'll work out this week, drink lots of water and get back to normal in a few days. Life goes on.

+1
I always feel bad for people who hate salt. Their life must be so bland. It helps enhance and balance flavor. Literally everything benefits from a bit of salt.

A bit of salt, sure. The amount of salt in a typical restaurant meal, no thanks. I’m always thirsty for a day afterward. Even with fine dining.

This, because salt is the cheapest way to make food taste “good.”
I’ve started to ask for low salt, and even then, it’s too much.
There’s a reason high blood pressure is so common.

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Yes, OP. I noticed too much salt when I ate out over Thanksgiving. When I cook at home, I use little salt, lots of pepper + herbs. I ordered a salad at a new restaurant in NW, and it was so salty, I could not eat it. Who puts salt on salads anyway? Not me. I noticed restaurants tend to over salt meats and soups too.

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If you're bloating for days because of a few salty meals, you're not in optimal health to begin with.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're bloating for days because of a few salty meals, you're not in optimal health to begin with.

Sure

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Salt is one of the most important factors in cooking (and bodily health!). I'm glad people are finally seasoning their food.

Have you heard of the DASH diet? You should research the effects of a high salt diet on cardiovascular health.

Or maybe don't follow fad diets?

That’s like saying the Mediterranean diet is a “fad diet.” No, it’s a way people in Mediterranean countries have been eating for millennia. There’s nothing “fad” about it.

Sorry, I'd rather have more than one teaspoon of salt a day. I like food that tastes good.

More salt does not equal taste.