In the latest issue of Nutrition, the international journal of applied and basic nutritional sciences, the Salt Institute's Morton Satin, Vice President of Science and Research, explains the risk of trying to reduce salt consumption across the population.
He makes this point in his article:
"Although decreasing salt intakes may reduce blood pressure for some individuals, it will likely increase renin/aldosterone levels for everyone. As a strategy to decrease blood pressure, unlike the DASH/Mediterranean diet or decreased stress or increased physical activity, decreasing salt does have significant potential for negative consequences because it trades one cardiovascular risk factor (blood pressure) for another (renin/aldosterone)."
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