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If you love salty food, you\u2019re going to love today\u2019s article.<\/p>\nIf you love salty food, you\u2019re going to love today\u2019s article.<\/p>\n
A new study, published in the American Journal of Physiology<\/em> in April 2017, proves that eating a lot of another delicious mineral, gives you a free pass on salt.<\/p>\n This common mineral forces your blood pressure down no matter if you consume a lot of salt or not.<\/p>\n According to the study, people in isolated societies with limited imported food eat a lot more potassium and a lot less sodium than those in developed countries.<\/p>\n This is unsurprising, as they eat more naturally grown fruit, vegetables, and grains than people in developed countries, and substantially less food preserved in cans, jars, and packets.<\/p>\n But the population studies go further.<\/p>\n When the team compared studies on high-potassium populations to those on low-potassium populations, they found that consuming a lot of potassium was much more important than using little salt.<\/p>\n Regardless of the amount of sodium they consumed, populations with a high potassium intake had lower blood pressure than those with low potassium consumption.<\/p>\n You find plenty of potassium in dark green vegetables, potato and sweet potatoes with their skins, mushrooms, beans, bananas, avocados, dried fruits, salmon, and yogurt.<\/p>\n