{"id":4336,"date":"2011-12-18T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2011-12-11T11:15:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T16:15:30","slug":"salt-cholesterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/12\/18\/salt-cholesterol\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Down on Salt Worsens Cholesterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/eating-salt1-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"eating-salt\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/eating-salt1-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/eating-salt1.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Adding fuel to the white hot debate over the nation\u2019s current salt recommendations, a study published in the most recent edition of the American Journal of Hypertension has discovered that limiting salt intake increases blood cholesterol in certain people. <\/p>\n<p>This study is part of a growing trend in nutrition science that suggests the large amount of salt in most people\u2019s diets may not be as harmful as once thought.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, those that suddenly cut down on their total salt intake found their blood cholesterol rise by about 2.5%. For those with borderline-high cholesterol, this 2.5% pushed them into the so-called cholesterol \u201cdanger zone\u201d \u2013 upping their risk of heart attacks and strokes. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/cholesterol\/\">21-days to lower cholesterol&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding fuel to the white hot debate over the nation\u2019s current salt recommendations, a study published in the most recent edition of the American Journal of Hypertension has discovered that limiting salt intake increases blood cholesterol in certain people. This study is part of a growing trend in nutrition science that suggests the large amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[36,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-cholesterol"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}