What salt does do to your food and body - The Food Chain podcast, BBC World Service

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  • Опубликовано: 29 янв 2025

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  • @BBCWorldService
    @BBCWorldService  3 месяца назад +4

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  • @durdonakamilova3855
    @durdonakamilova3855 2 месяца назад +6

    In my country Uzbekistan each meal is salty,especially in restaurants, but unfortunately it is normal for people,but anyway young generation starts to eat less salty dishes❤

  • @Klara-55-k2q
    @Klara-55-k2q 3 месяца назад +118

    Whatever FDA says I try to avoid it. I found myself in this rabbit hole of so many industry lies when I read "The 23 Former Doctor Truths". Its no wonder why Doctor left her career.

    • @M_SC
      @M_SC 2 месяца назад

      That’s a typically simple minded stupid thing to do. You know other countries exist right? The FDA is just American.

  • @BartBVanBockstaele
    @BartBVanBockstaele 18 дней назад

    When I was told to avoid salt, I went extremist and stopped using salt altogether. I was told it would only take three weeks to "get used to it". That was half true: it took me three years. But some 7 years in I can say that I do not miss salt one bit. It is simply something I no longer use and something I no longer avoid either. It is like plutonium to me. I am blind to it. I simply no longer think of it at all.

  • @zando5108
    @zando5108 3 месяца назад +7

    Hong Kong and Japan have the number 1 and 2 highest life expectancy and have an average daily salt intake of 8.8 grams and 9.9 grams - almost double the 5g upper limit by WHO. I wonder if these are confounded by the ultra processed foods and meats that westerners often find most of their salt comes from

    • @pebblesandwoowoo
      @pebblesandwoowoo 3 месяца назад +1

      Some of our food contains sodium nitrate which is a salt but very concentrated. You will find different sodiums in a lot of our foods, not necessarily just salt. So it's easy to eat too much and not know. Our "fresh meats" are packed with them. The Eastern diet is very fresh and ful of fish and rice, good cards and loads of veggies which many here don't often eat, at least in the quantities of Eastern cuisine.

    • @PSA78
      @PSA78 2 месяца назад +1

      Correlation doesn't equal causation.
      There's all sorts of funny statistics comparing things.

    • @M_SC
      @M_SC 2 месяца назад

      @@pebblesandwoowoowhite rice is indeed a good carbohydrate but nutritionists don’t think so. The Japanese eat white rice.

  • @jaram2369
    @jaram2369 2 месяца назад +1

    I actually have an opposite issue to most. I eat a more plant based diet, cut out ultra processed and pre packaged foods, don't eat out and have very little meat weekly. I was prone to extreme fatigue often my doctor told me to salt my dishes fairly generously, this is also paired with the low blood pressure that runs in our family. I feel much better with more salt in my diet. That said, I am still under reccomended guidelines.
    For those of you cutting back on salt, the secret to making most dishes delicious with an abscence of salt is to add acidic flavors. Lemon, lime, tomato or vinegar make most dishes amazing.

    • @M_SC
      @M_SC 2 месяца назад

      That happens to me when i go on a “eat at home” diet including lots of meat and cheese. And yet after not long, like 2 weeks, I’ll feel horribly tired in a weird way. Salt was the answer.

  • @michaelbanh4000
    @michaelbanh4000 3 месяца назад +13

    Salt is good for your health. You need it to maintain nerve function, otherwise your body will fail.
    Like other things, too much salt may be bad, but a small amount of salt/sodium is essential for your body

    • @StarlightJosh
      @StarlightJosh 3 месяца назад +1

      iodine deficiency can lead to goitre too

    • @haritanone6264
      @haritanone6264 3 месяца назад +1

      At the same time salt has a lot of microplastics and too much microplastic consumption can lead to reduced fertility and build up in our arteries, blood, testicles and other organs.

    • @PSA78
      @PSA78 2 месяца назад

      I don't believe anyone has said we shouldn't eat any at all.

  • @fatimahpurwitasariharahap4551
    @fatimahpurwitasariharahap4551 15 дней назад

    Salt can be both useful and harmful to our bodies. Thus, we must pay attention to monitoring how much intake of salt comes into our bodies.

  • @ej7260
    @ej7260 3 месяца назад +6

    The “lower intake of salt” publicity should be moderated. Too low intake of salt causes health issues, imbalance of electrolytes. As much as the program was interesting, apart from saying that with no salt you die, there wasn’t much said how important it is to intake a balance amount of good salt with good minerals, and how it’s essential for balanced amount of electrolytes in the body. “The world average” is not everybody.

    • @Devp1006
      @Devp1006 3 месяца назад

      is anyone really at the risk of having too little salt? but I agree, they should talk about the importance of having SOME salt.

  • @MrBemnet1
    @MrBemnet1 2 месяца назад +1

    As a black person in USA the recommendation is 1.5 gram

  • @kazizahidhasan2679
    @kazizahidhasan2679 3 месяца назад +3

    Could you suggest any alternatives to salt? Despite knowing the bad effects of salt, we can not leave them!!

    • @poodledoodle2416
      @poodledoodle2416 3 месяца назад +2

      Seasoning

    • @ej7260
      @ej7260 3 месяца назад +2

      Try SuperSalt. It’s low in sodium but tastes salty and has the beneficial minerals that a good salt should have.

    • @doomce9504
      @doomce9504 2 месяца назад

      Mineral salt. Does taste different, but is more healthy option than regular sodium salt. It has potassium and magnesium in addition to sodium.

    • @PSA78
      @PSA78 2 месяца назад

      Seasoning will bring more flavour.

  • @Whatsyouridea1996
    @Whatsyouridea1996 3 месяца назад +1

    💡

  • @yanu3778
    @yanu3778 3 месяца назад

    without salt ' The Description is not Food....

  • @yuenkwanhumble4668
    @yuenkwanhumble4668 2 месяца назад

    Do not eat grapefruit with salt!

  • @dash4uson760
    @dash4uson760 Месяц назад

    Less salt more CVD come.

  • @seasonmists
    @seasonmists 3 месяца назад

    Please fix the title. It's not grammatically correct.

  • @yuenkwanhumble4668
    @yuenkwanhumble4668 2 месяца назад

    ❤😊❤

  • @alanseymour1252
    @alanseymour1252 3 месяца назад +2

    What percentage of ancient cave people died because of not throwing salt into their food?
    Almost none I suspect.

    • @Saintjohn2711
      @Saintjohn2711 3 месяца назад +2

      They ate more potassium it seems

    • @haritanone6264
      @haritanone6264 3 месяца назад +2

      ​​@@Saintjohn2711more potassium in the form of potassium chloride wouldn't be too bad compared to sodium chloride. I suppose it depends what is meant by the term, 'salt', as well, sodium chloride is not too good for health but potassium chloride may be a healthier alternative for those who need to get their blood pressure down.

    • @Saintjohn2711
      @Saintjohn2711 3 месяца назад

      @@haritanone6264 this isn't commercially available though for me, do they sell this in your area?

  • @marlan5470
    @marlan5470 3 месяца назад +1

    Carnivore diet needs the salt. Cut the sugar. Cut all sugar: rice, pasta, bread, potatoes, yams, sweeteners, vegetables.
    The best remedy for gout is red meat, salt and water.

    • @PSA78
      @PSA78 2 месяца назад

      🤦🏼‍♂️

  • @HoangNam-j8j
    @HoangNam-j8j 3 месяца назад +1

    🙄🙄🙄Never ask a chef about disease, always ask a smart doctor at big hospital

  • @adamkunzoon474
    @adamkunzoon474 3 месяца назад +1

    it is useless and foolish to take recomondations or even use of salt on human body by any shef which has no or very less knowldge about body chemistry

    • @jaram2369
      @jaram2369 2 месяца назад +1

      Okayyy... maybe listen to more than the first 4 minutes?