Are you eating too much salt in your diet? Salt gets in everywhere nowadays - even into your breakfast cereal - and huge numbers of us are becoming overly sensitive to salt in the diet - causing high blood pressure problems, strokes and heart attacks.
You can now buy simple home blood pressure monitor devices. These allow you to check your readings as often as you like. Try an experiment and check the levels of BP before and then after a salty meal - the results will shock you. The rise in pressure levels caused by salt is greater if you have spent time trying to keep salt out of your diet for a while before you check the results.
Some of us are very salt sensitive and this makes things even worse. No one is quite sure if this is genetic or just a way that our body adapts to our modern diet. But the fact is this - if you are one of the unlucky group who react badly to salt then you could be at real risk of early death or stroke or heart attack.
So then, are you at risk because you are sensitive to salt? How would you know?
Here's a simple way to figure it all out. First you need to invest in a simple home blood pressure reading machine. You can buy these online or in a local drugstore or pharmacy. Second, take time to learn how to use it so that you can keep a chart of your readings and results. Then, once you've grasped how to make it work for you, go on the following diet for one week.
Simple eating plan. Eat only fruit or smoothies or yogurt for a week. Nothing else. Drink water or tea or coffee as much as you like. This means nearly no salt at all. Check your blood pressure with the machine. Is it lower than before?
Final stage. Sit down to a big meal with plenty salt in the food and then add a bit more for good measure. If your blood pressure rises quickly then you've just confirmed the issue. Try to avoid or dramatically reduce salt in future.
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This post was written by Doctor Gordon Cameron on March 24, 2010
