Katherine Jacques

“The heart receives blood supply during relaxation, whereas every other organ gets blood when the heart is contracting. So the quicker one’s heart pumps means the less time the heart is relaxed to receive blood and, hence, oxygen. This is one reason why low-salt diets122 have been implicated in increasing the risk of heart attacks: by reducing blood flow to the heart. The increase in norepinephrine on low-salt diets may even produce cardiac hypertrophy, overgrowth of the heart, which can lead to heart failure.123”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

“One manufacturer producing reduced salt bacon has already used this technique; when the salt content of bacon was reduced from 3.5 percent to 2.3 percent, the shelf-life was reduced from 56 days to 28 days.”145 Lowering the salt content of packaged foods may also require higher use of suspect preservatives, such as phosphates, nitrates, and nitrites, in order to maintain microbial stability, which are likely more detrimental to our health compared to salt.146”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

“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

“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