25/02/2010 13:02:19
gymnag_Paul
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The Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) have released a report highlighting that salt levels in high street store soups are still too high. In fact "99% of the surveyed products contain more salt per portion than a packet of crisps". Of the products surveyed, cafe soups were the worst offenders, followed by major brands and then supermarket own brands faring better. As the CASH report shows, many people think that soup is a healthy lunch time option but are not aware of the amount of salt hidden away in it. The best option is to make your own and then take it to work with you and simply reheat it in the microwave if facilities are available. This way you'll know what's in it and ideally not add any salt at all - particularly if you have bread with it as bread can have a lot of salt too.
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09/02/2011 09:04:06
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According to new research conducted in Australia on 16 healthy adults, high salt meals can have an effect on your circulation within 30 minutes of consumption. They performed this trial by giving some of the volunteers a reduced salt tomato soup with 3.8g of salt added to it, and the remainder just the soup with no added salt. Those who had the high salt soup had an effect after only half an hour, meaning their blood vessels were less responsive and expand less when there is a need for high blood flow. This effect lasted for about 2 hours. Interestingly there was no effect on blood pressure.
The same researchers have previously observed that a high salt diet can make your blood vessels less responsive after two weeks, which may cause the accumulation of fat in the artery and lead to heart disease and strokes.
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10/02/2011 09:44:44
gymnag_Paul
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That's interesting, I guess it might explain why you sometimes feel sluggish after some meals and not others.
Also, as an aside, I wonder what this means for sports people, maybe a high salt content meal/drink is not such a good idea just before or just after an important match.
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10/02/2011 13:13:39
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If that's the case, having a high salt meal before training/competing could affect your performance. If the blood vessels can't expand it could potentially affect the amount of oxygen delivered to the muscles.
I know some people will deliberately have a lot of salt before a long runnning race to combat salt loss through perspiration. If the above is correct then this could actually have an adverse effect on their performance, in which case it would be better to save replacing salts until the race has started.
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