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fromSilicon Canals
15 hours ago

This kitchen staple is quietly raising your blood pressure without you knowing - Silicon Canals

Hidden sodium in many foods, including processed deli meats and seemingly healthy meals, can significantly raise blood pressure and harm cardiovascular health.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Potassium-rich diet may cut risk of heart failure by 24%, study suggests

The senior study author, Prof Henning Bundgaard, a professor at Copenhagen University hospital, said: The human body evolved on a potassium-rich, sodium-poor diet when we were born and raised on the savannah and eating [fruit and vegetables]. We [now] tend to go to [a] modern diet that is processed foods and, the more processed, we see more and more sodium in the food and less potassium, meaning that the ratio between the two has changed from 10:1 to 1:2 a dramatic change.
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