Should high blood pressure and low-sodium diet go together?
Not necessarily.
Despite a heavy push towards lowering sodium in the diet among heart patients, low-salt diet isn’t a hypertension panacea.
Besides the fact that sodium restriction won’t make any difference to high blood pressure in large proportion of patients, low sodium diet doesn’t fix cardiovascular risks.
The video explains why.
There are far better options to deal with hypertension and lower cardiovascular risk than to restrict salt.
