[Justin7]

I've studied this salt stuff. It's bad for you. If you eat 200% of your USDA recommended salt intake, your BP will be about 20 points higher than normal. If your BP is 140/90 (instead of 120/80, which is "normal"), your life expectancy is about 10 years less.

If you eat out twice a day (fast food or other included), try to do it at less than 200% of the normal daily intake of Sodium. You can't! Eating out all the time will seriously kill your lifespan.

Are there any good fast-food restaraunts (or even slow-food ones) that have a reasonable low-salt menu?

[SBR Lou]

Are there any good fast-food restaraunts (or even slow-food ones) that have a reasonable low-salt menu?

The problem with fast food places are, even if they're relatively low to normal in one regard, they're really unhealthy in another. Chinese food may not have as much saturated fat as Italian, but it's LOADED with sodium, etc.

[indy62]

justin, i use salt substitutes(i had a stroke in july)when i go out i ask them to use no salt and then usr my own..you cant eliminate it but you can control it,there is a great one called nosalt,mrs dash has one and the best is tony chachares(there is a bit of potasium)

[pavyracer]

Order a grilled steak with baked potato and steamed vegetables. I'm pretty sure there is 0 salt in this dish. I order this all the time.

[The Seer]

Justin, they load salt on because it makes you hugrier and hides what their food really tastes like. Salt's effect on your body is regulated by a hormone called aldosterone. I don't want to go in a 10 page post but you can read up on it. If you can't get around the salt then you must drink alot more water. Drink water till you start peeing like crazy. The extra water intake will help counter balance against it. But how many people you know sit around and drink water like they should each day? That is why it is cut years off. Fast food is as bad as cigarettes.

[The Seer]

Order a grilled steak with baked potato and steamed vegetables. I'm pretty sure there is 0 salt in this dish. I order this all the time.

Steak and baked potato have natural sodium without adding it.

[Poker_Beast]

Gotta die some way!

[RickySteve]

Ingest more potassium.

[BurtRapp]

I know I'm an ignorant prick but my feelings are:
If you eat the way you want to and drink party and gamble. Even if it takes 10 years off of your life what is the problem??
So if I live to be 75 instead of 85 I don't think those are going to be very fun and productive times anyway.. I would rather have a good time at 25 now than at 75 when I won't have as much access to the fun things I like to do. JMO

[tacomax]

If you eat the way you want to and drink party and gamble. Even if it takes 10 years off of your life what is the problem??

But excessive drinking will take another 10 years off your life. Partying excessively takes another 10. Gambling stress another 5. You'll probably be dead by the end of the week. The point is that reducing salt intake is very easy to do and the benefits are very large.

And aside from restaurants - have you seen how much salt that the food manufacturers put in processed food?

[BurtRapp]

I don't mind people doing the right thing around me and eating healthy. I can kind of respect that discipline but it's not for me.

[THE HITMAN]

Really, really tough to do, especially if you want something that is the least bit munchable. And if you order no salt............what makes you think they give it to you that way. If it's already prepared, guess what? That's how you get it, like it (and know it) or not.

[Sportsgirl]

I drink tons of water daily - but it's only to combat my addiction to sunflower seeds

[RageWizard]

I don't add salt to anything but I have noticed that the diet products are loaded with salt. Doesn't salt make it harder to lose body water? I would think this would be counter productive with diet products..... wait a minute... its a scam. O.K. nevermind.

[Sportsgirl]

I don't add salt to anything but I have noticed that the diet products are loaded with salt. Doesn't salt make it harder to lose body water? I would think this would be counter productive with diet products..... wait a minute... its a scam. O.K. nevermind.

You'll have to wait for The Seer on this one, RW - he's the food guru.

[RageWizard]

You'll have to wait for The Seer on this one, RW - he's the food guru.

Don't you mean Food Seer?

[RageWizard]

Oh, I think I could take a couple of pounds on this frame.