Sodium and Potassium Health Effects

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 From The Archives of Internal Medicine, in an Alternative Health article, "Comments on 'Sodium and Potassium Intake and Mortality Among US Adults," the scientists report the following--

"Among more than 12,000 US adults*...they identified large relationships between higher sodium [salt] intake and higher all-cause mortality and between lower potassium intake and...[lower]all cause [heart disease] death.

MOST IMPORTANT, higher sodium to potassium ratios were strongly associated with an increased all-cause Cardiovascular Disease and [heart disease] mortality."

Editor's Note: This Alternative health approach is easy and quite beneficial. To reduce salt intake, look at the labels on prepared soups for example. They are often laden with salt. Also one can buy canned fish packed in water rather than salt.

To add potassium to your diet, eat lots of beans (no salt added) and nuts and fresh or frozen fruit. There is also a 99 milligram pill of pure potassium. We suggest that one pill is quite sufficient. One can overdose this.

Here then, is an Alternative health approach found, surprisingly, in a major medical publication.

*Assessed in the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey.

In: Archives of Int. Med., 2011 vol. 171. By: Drs. Silver and Farley, NY City Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, NY.