Low Sodium Diets - Another Myth Unmasked

Low sodium diets have been the standard recommendation of mainstream physicians for so long now that it has become accepted as the gospel truth in patient care management. Proof of this is the proliferation of books and recipes extolling low sodium diets, and assorted products stressing its low sodium contents.

I bet you've experienced being advised often enough by your doctor to avoid salt in your diet. You know what? This now joins the long list of myths in medical practice that has been unmasked as such. The magnitude of the harmful repercussions of these myths on unsuspecting patients through all these years must have been unimaginable.


Low sodium diets will not lower blood pressure. On the contrary, it could hasten death and increase the risk of fractures, if you managed to survive, according to a recent study presented before the American Society of Nephrology.

The Dutch study involving 5200 men and women over 55 years old, revealed that those who had low sodium levels had 61% increased probability of spinal fracture, 39% increased risk for non-spinal fracture, and a 21% increased possibility of dying within the 6 year study period. And to think that those subjects were not highly deficient in sodium, but were only slightly on the low side. So, you could just imagine what the results of the study would have been had they been extremely low in sodium.

Following your doctor's order to go on low sodium diets exposes you not only to advanced death and fractures, but can also make you suffer from nervousness, muscle cramps, loss of urinary control, and even delusion.

And perhaps, the most detestable consequence of this no sodium or low sodium diets is to bear with dull and tasteless meals. At last, this does not have to be the case anymore.