Cutting out salt

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  • AlabasterVerve
    AlabasterVerve Posts: 3,171 Member
    jgnatca wrote: »
    Surgery trendy? More like stigma wouldn't you say? Drastic, yes. Life-saving, for me, very likely yes.
    But low carb! Oh my goodness. Entire shelves at the grocery store catering to the gluten-free crowd.

    Your life-saving surgery is a-ok but someone elses life-saving diet is up for ridicule? Something about that just doesn't seem right to me but it takes all kinds right? Oh wait... I guess you wouldn't agree with that either. Carry on.

  • MakePeasNotWar
    MakePeasNotWar Posts: 1,329 Member
    carolynmo1969 wrote: »
    chivalryder wrote: »
    Also remember that your body NEEDS chloride and iodine. Two chemicals which are nearly impossible to get without eating table salt.

    That being said, 2g of iodized table salt a day is enough to get you the sodium, chloride and iodine you need.

    This bears repeating - many gourmet salts and sea salts don't have these added and they are very important.

    Seaweed also contains iodine, and a few other foods. Definitely look into it if you use non-iodized salt. Goiter, thyroid issues, and pregnancy complications are all symptoms of iodine deficiency

    http://www.thyroid.org/iodine-deficiency/
  • MakePeasNotWar
    MakePeasNotWar Posts: 1,329 Member
    AlabasterVerve wrote: »
    jgnatca wrote: »
    Surgery trendy? More like stigma wouldn't you say? Drastic, yes. Life-saving, for me, very likely yes.
    But low carb! Oh my goodness. Entire shelves at the grocery store catering to the gluten-free crowd.

    Your life-saving surgery is a-ok but someone elses life-saving diet is up for ridicule? Something about that just doesn't seem right to me but it takes all kinds right? Oh wait... I guess you wouldn't agree with that either. Carry on.

    I think the issue is with how many people jump blindly on to the gluten free or low carb bandwagons though they have no reason to, and don't bother to learn about their new diets. I can't count how many people I've heard say that carbs are fattening because they cut out carbs for a period and as soon as they ate a piece of bread they gained 2 lbs.

    This is probably not the majority of low carbers but it's the most vocal group (in non-dedicated groups, of course), so it's natural that this is how people will think of low carb adherents as a group.

    As for gluten free, unfortunately since there are so many more gluten free eaters than celiacs, they probably are the majority. Most of the people I know who switched to gluten free thought it would help them lose weight. I don't think anyone is ridiculing celiacs, it's the absurdity of people eating gluten free cupcakes thinking they are diet food, and that I am going to get fat and sick from my whole wheat bread.
  • AlabasterVerve
    AlabasterVerve Posts: 3,171 Member
    MakePeasNotWar wrote: »
    AlabasterVerve wrote: »
    jgnatca wrote: »
    Surgery trendy? More like stigma wouldn't you say? Drastic, yes. Life-saving, for me, very likely yes.
    But low carb! Oh my goodness. Entire shelves at the grocery store catering to the gluten-free crowd.

    Your life-saving surgery is a-ok but someone elses life-saving diet is up for ridicule? Something about that just doesn't seem right to me but it takes all kinds right? Oh wait... I guess you wouldn't agree with that either. Carry on.

    I think the issue is with how many people jump blindly on to the gluten free or low carb bandwagons though they have no reason to, and don't bother to learn about their new diets...

    So dietary choices aren't being belittled it's the ignorant people we're belittling for eating a diet they don't have to eat but are choosing to eat for real or imagined benefits... does that really sound ok to you? Because that actually sounds even worse to me.
  • MakePeasNotWar
    MakePeasNotWar Posts: 1,329 Member
    I never said I had an issue with the people, I said with "how many people...", and went on to describe a behaviour . It may seem like semantics, but the meaning is very different. I also said that that is "the issue", i.e, the reason people call low carb "trendy', which is what I believe you took issue with in the first place. Not sure how that's mocking or belittling.

    I did say it's absurd to equate gluten-free with health benefits that have no basis in evidence (obviously not including celiacs, because there is plenty of evidence there). I stand by that statement. It isn't the same as calling someone stupid. I hold my breath on the scale. It's absurd to think that would make a difference. I don't think that I am stupid because of it. I also wouldn't get my panties in a twist if someone pointed out that it was absurd.

    You seem to be trying to pick a fight here.
  • lynn1982
    lynn1982 Posts: 1,439 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    suecoyston wrote: »
    discuss..
    It was suggested by a friend that if salt is cut out completely from a diet then the body finds it easier to lose weight as your body doesn't retain so much water

    Yes, sodium can make you retain/hold water. Why would anyone care about losing water weight though? Fat loss is the goal.

    This. Plus your body actually needs sodium.

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