Katherine Jacques

“also implement weight training, because lifting weights or doing resistance exercises (using resistance bands, weight machines, or your own body weight) is one of the best ways to help with insulin resistance. While aerobic exercise helps your body use insulin better and decreases storage of visceral (abdominal) fat, resistance training makes your body more sensitive to insulin and helps your muscles take up more glucose (sugar) from the blood, thereby lowering blood sugar. Even simply exercising before or right after you eat something with higher carbohydrate levels can help reduce any resulting swings in your blood sugar and insulin release.”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

“Adding 2,300 milligrams of sodium (1 teaspoon of salt) per liter of water has been found to reduce total fluid loss during exercise.”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

“Also, diluting salt in a mixture of lemon, lime, and orange juice is quite pleasant.”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

“Inhabitants of Kotyang, Nepal Sodium intake: ~ 4,600 mg sodium/day Blood pressure: No cases of hypertension in the men. Blood pressure did not increase with age. In the women, hypertension was extremely rare (1.4 percent). The authors concluded, “In the present study, no significant increase in systolic blood pressure with age was found in men living in Kotyang, and no hypertensive men and very few hypertensive women were detected in Kotyang”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life