Nearly everyone can lower their blood pressure, even people currently on blood pressure- reducing drugs, by lowering their sodium intake, reports a new study from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Northwestern Medicine and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Or just replace sodium chloride with potassium chloride https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/does-a-low-salt-diet-really-improve-your-health
Low salt requires bland food prepped at home. Changing salt type might actually have a chance at making a dent in BP numbers because it doesn’t involve an immediate inconvenience (lack of flavor and convenience) for a long term payoff of less than 10% of a number that’s correlated with slightly lower chances of something happening years in the future.
Isn’t the lack of flavour / blandnness highly determined by what you’re used to? If you eat less salty foods for a while it would taste like before
Maybe, but that doesn’t solve the issue of the unpleasant, immediate consequence for a nebulous, far-off payoff. We’re not going to get better humans any time soon, so I think it’s not useful to focus on individual based solutions population level problems.
Fair, for solving it on population level it is also regulating how much salt manufacturers are allowed to put in ready made food , otherwise they will keep adding more and more salt becuase it selss better
That’s fine, but why not mandate it just be a different salt at that point. No reduction in flavor/sales plus health benefits. Again, simple reduction impacts taste and will have reduced efficacy based on that.