Sentences with phrase «sodium is bad for your health»
Although too much sodium is bad for your health, your body needs sodium to regulate your blood pressure and blood volume and to promote the absorption of essential nutrients like glucose and chloride.
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«If you have too much sodium and too little potassium, it's worse than either one on its own,» said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City's health commissioner, who has led efforts to get the public to eat less salt... «Potassium may neutralize the heart - damaging effects of salt,» said Dr. Elena Kuklina, one of the study's authors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... The research found people who eat a lot of salt and very little potassium were more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack as those who ate about equal amounts of both nutrients.
By now you've probably heard that consuming excess sodium can be bad for your health.
Although salt and sodium often get a bad reputation in the health and nutrition industry, a small amount of the nutrient is necessary for proper body functioning.