{"id":1527,"date":"2011-06-12T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2011-11-02T03:07:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T07:07:35","slug":"salt-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/06\/12\/salt-high-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Salt Diet for High Blood Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/06\/12\/salt-high-blood-pressure\/attachment\/1093503421\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1441\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/home\/blueher1\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/1093503421-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"109350342[1]\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1441\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s common knowledge that restricting salt is one of the front line recommendations for preventing high blood pressure. However, new research conducted by Belgium\u2019s University of Leuven questions that conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>In this study, they found that severely limiting salt intake (consuming less than 1500 mg per day) didn\u2019t reduce heart attack and stroke risk in most people without high blood pressure. They do note that those with high blood pressure do benefit from restricting sodium. This study has come under attack from the American Heart Association and the American Medical Association for its conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Treating high blood pressure is more than cutting back on salt, but preventing it in the first place may need a new set of eyes. <\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/bloodpressure\">here for more natural treatments<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Warm regards,<\/p>\n<p>Christian Goodman<\/p>\n<p>el331005<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s common knowledge that restricting salt is one of the front line recommendations for preventing high blood pressure. However, new research conducted by Belgium\u2019s University of Leuven questions that conventional wisdom. In this study, they found that severely limiting salt intake (consuming less than 1500 mg per day) didn\u2019t reduce heart attack and stroke risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-high-blood-pressure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}