2024-05-13 19:00:13
Some consumers must avoid these salts at the risk of developing heart rhythm disorders.
So-called “diet” salts are used as a flavor enhancer instead of dietary salt when you need to reduce your intake. Excessive consumption of dietary salt increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure and water retention. To avoid an increase in blood pressure, sodium present in classic salt is replaced by potassium in diet salts. A Chinese studies conducted on 21,000 people showed that after five years, people who ate potassium-enriched salt had significantly fewer strokes and cardiovascular accidents than others.
Dietary fats can be found in pharmacies and supermarkets, but be careful, warns the magazine 60 million consumers published by the National Consumer Institute (INC). Their packaging “try to effectively warn consumers”. According to the investigation, 6 brands of dietary salt sold in pharmacies and supermarkets, the warnings are too light and could put some consumers at risk. In 2020, patient death pushed theRespect his humor “the lack of labeling information […]especially in people who have not been followed or are not being followed for conditions that increase the risk. Four years later, the warnings are still unclear. We read for example: “Suitable for low sodium diets, always under medical supervision”, “-33% sodium” or “Not suitable for people whose diet must be low in potassium.” Information too vague…
Dietary salt consumption is actually not recommended for certain people such as those suffering from heart failure, diabetes, chronic renal failure and the elderly whose kidneys may have difficulty eliminating potassium. Patients who treat their high blood pressure or heart failure with “hyperkalemia” medications are also at risk of developing hyperkalemia, that is, with an excess of potassium in the blood, heart rate problems can occur if they eat dietary salts.
“Among them we find certain essential antihypertensives such as inhibitors of the enzyme that converts angiotensin, antagonists of angiotensin II, sartans, or certain diuretics (spironolactone). All of them slow down the elimination of potassium, which can then accumulate in the body”, explains Professor Béatrice Duly-Bouhanick, endocrinologist and hypertensive. To find out if dietary salt is according to your health, it is best to discuss it with your doctor or pharmacist before buying it.
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