Talk:Low sodium diet

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increase risk of death for systolic failure?

The article cites a couple primary sources to claim low salt diet might increase death risk for systolic heart failure patients. (Obviously that's true for anyone on a "no salt" diet, but low salt diet must be taken to mean something reasonable.)What concerns me is these primary sources are so recent (2013) and it's apparently not textbook dogma yet.76.218.104.120 (talk) 21:57, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There isn't a known minimum salt intake. Hyponatremia is triggered by sudden sodium losses (or drop in concentration), not by gradual reduction in a diet. There are entire populations that have minimal access to salt in food or otherwise. So I think you are a little too quick with that "obviously"? A1957 (talk) 20:49, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Increase in Death Rates

Look again at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21735439
And in the Main Results bit read Salt restriction increased the risk of all-cause death in those with congestive heart failure (end of trial relative risk: 2.59, 95% 1.04 to 6.44, 21 deaths). We found no information on participants health-related quality of life.

You will notice this was a survey of experiments and was done in 2011

Just as someone is trying to get you to buy vitamin D, someone else is trying to reduce production cost by reducing salt input
The only trouble is that will make their produce unattractive so the only way is to force all of them to reduce salt input but that's zero sum and thus creates this value added market

Like magnetic bracelets in the 70's it may over time disappear

--176.251.53.182 (talk) 08:51, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Milk

Milk is listed in both the high-sodium and in the low-sodium sections. An expert should decide which is wrong and remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:30A:C088:21D0:54DB:514E:9712:E1EE (talk) 17:14, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Section on negative effects

I found the exact same section in the article about the DASH diet, where it's completely unrelated and I removed it. It makes three statements based on a single reference. Here is a scientific article from a reputable source coming to the opposite conclusion: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4731857/ I suspect some contributor (with just these two duplicative contributions in his or her entire editing history) is on some pro-sodium crusade. That's not the way to improve the quality of wikipedia. A1957 (talk) 20:55, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The source I posted is a review of 23 clinical trials. That's not nothing. Feel free to additionally post your source.

On the contrary, I have been on a low-sodium DASH diet most days of the week since last year and continue to advocate for an avoidance of excessive sodium intake (while ensuring to consume a non-zero minimum to avoid health issues). Trismax (talk) 21:32, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So much for the neutral point of view if we start editing based on our own diets! I will add the other point of view per your suggestion. A1957 (talk) 15:10, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]