Reduce high blood pressure with high salt intake
That's a teaser headline. An article earlier this year in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation by Dr. Markus G. Mohaupt and colleages in Berne, Switzerland, found that treating hyperensive pregnant women with a diet of 20 mg/day of salt (nearly triple normal intake) lowered their blood pressure significantly.
A generation ago, obstetricians routinely advised expctant mothers to cut down on their salt intake...until experience and controlled trials found the advice was producing miscarriages. So, that advice is an historical footnote. But giving MORE salt? That's a new one!
And the high salt therapy integrates nicely in addressing emerging concern that pregnant women need to consume more iodine -- since iodized salt is public health's preferred option for adding iodine to the diet.
