Dr. Mike Dow's Salt Alternatives
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:50AM
On Anderson's "My Food Obsession is Destroying My Life" show, one guest discusses her addiction to salt, explaining that she puts large amounts of it on everything from ham sandwiches to ketchup.
In his book, "Diet Rehab," food addiction expert Dr. Mike Dow explains that "salt raises our blood pressure and causes dehydration. Besides potentially creating cardiovascular problems, dehydration causes us to eat more when what we really crave is water."
Salt is also a contributing factor in heart attacks and strokes. Dr. Dow recommends finding salt alternatives, which will help spice up your meal without sacrificing your health.
Click through for Dr. Dow's list of salt alternatives, and meals with which they can be paired.
Filed Under: As Seen On The Show, Health & Fitness
Comments
What about sea salt? I heard it is a better salt but can we have the same problems if we use is all the time. I find food too boring without salt.
Thanks to Dr. Mike for the Salt Alternatives!! I needed it too!
Marilyn
I can't seem to find the list of salt alternatives that were recommended on today's show. Can you help?
also when i eat lobster and crab legs i put salt and pepper on my plate and dip my seafood into the salt and pepper before i dip it into butter
I am surprised to observe that you are not mentioning Potassium Cloride as the best salt-substitute, espicially since the danger in too much salt ( or sodium) is an imbalance between Sodium and potassium. I don't tink that it would be easy to balance the 2 by eating greens as the source of potassium .