...do you add in your meal?...i use to eat salty,even though all the doctors say that is wrong for the heart,but if
I listen all the things that they are saying about what is good or wrong to eat or drink,i will starve to death.
I rarely use salt while cooking because I almost always end up adding more when I eat. I know it's bad for you, but it seems just about everything is these days. What was good for you last week is now bad for you this week. Eat what you want but in moderation is what I try to do.
shareI will add some salt if I'm cooking but almost never when eating prepared food, which almost always has too much salt in it to start with.
shareSomeone told me that if you add salt before you taste the food,you may upsate the chef.So i always taste the food and then i add salt if necesary.
shareTasting first is the best thing to do anyway just because you don't know how salty the dish may or may not be. It may be too salty already. I wouldn't worry about insulting the chef in any case. It would be pretty unreasonable for someone to be insulted by that.
shareI should have said in-polite,i think.But anyway when i'm cooking for more then one person,i don't put salt at all,i let the quest to add himself.
share I try not to add too much salt. But some foods just beg for it, like eggs. I've been trying to use herbs and other spices to flavor things. For instance, I love rosemary and oregano.
My mom has always been a salt fanatic. We always ate a lot of salads. For Sunday dinner she would often slice up a plate of cucumbers. But she'd salt them! I always hated that when I was a kid. I much preferred the flavor of fresh, sweet cucumbers.
Supposedly all that salt is bad for you. But my mom is eighty. And along with salt, she's been smoking like a chimney since she was seventeen. I tend to think your genes play a big part in the story of your health.
For cucumbers...no,but i understand the smokers,my father is on of them.
shareMy late father was a smoker too. And he salted his food a lot. He lived to be 77. And he started smoking when he was 17. Didn't get lung cancer though. In contrast, I have a friend whose mom died of lung cancer and she never smoked.
Seems like so much of it is a crap shoot. You do your best to live healthy, but in the end your genes have a lot to do with it.
Smoking for years will kill a person's sense of taste and sense of smell, so a smoker will often overseason food so that they can taste it, but meanwhile for a non smoker with functioning taste buds, it's too much.
sharePopcorn kernel- As for smoking killing a person's sense of taste and smell, exactly what my dad used to say! He would say that his sense of smell was "shot!" He could hardly smell anything.
I never really believed him, but one time I was staying over and I had my dog with me. She slept in the yard that night. A skunk came through and she decided to confront it. Well she got sprayed. It's one of the worst, horrible smells imaginable. I could smell it through the open window. My dad was out there in the yard PETTING her.
I asked him why. Couldn't he detect that awful skunk smell on her? He didn't. So I know his sense of smell was gone.
Yup! Another really dangerous thing is they cannot smell a gas leak. Natural gas has a stinky chemical added to it just so that people can tell when there is a leak. but a lot of elderly people and smokers still can't smell it. And smokers are most likely to use a match or lighter indoors when they don't know there is a gas leak.
One time when I was in college, I came home and my parents house was full of gas. The stove knob was not turned off all the way. Neither mom nor dad could smell a thing because they both smoked. I ran around frantically opening doors and windows and they were just like 'whah??"
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Anyone who has older parents who have no sense of smell, please get a natural gas detector alarm for their house. Not carbon monoxide, you need a different device for natural gas.
Cooking at home I usually add a little while cooking, and a little bit more just before eating. The timing of when you add the salt makes a difference. Salt added while cooking will taste different than salt added at the end before eating.
At a restaurant I usually taste it first, not worrying about insulting any 'chef' because the chef is not there watching me and I don't eat at fancy places. But usually it's already very salty and doesn't need more.
Salt is not bad for everyone, it's bad for people with high blood pressure. If your blood pressure is normal then you can go ahead and eat what you like. Salt will not GIVE you HBP. It's just bad if you already have HBP. People don't always understand these doietary health rules are not one size fits all. Like they think gluten is bad for everyone. Nope. If you have celiac disease then it's bad for you, but if you don't have celiac disease then gluten is a healthy source of protein. I love gluten and gluten loves me.
Salt is not bad for everyone, it's bad for people with high blood pressure. If your blood pressure is normal then you can go ahead and eat what you like.
I had no idea gluten was so affectionate.
sharewhat's the difference, you're not going to get out of this life alive. so eat all the salt you want, you'll have many problems
when you get older but, you've been warned, although the body needs a certain amount of salt, it's one of the worst foods you can eat, it's called the white death by 2 doctors that wrote a book called "Never be tired again"
...it's called the white death by 2 doctors that wrote a book called "Never be tired again"
"And for every two doctors that say this I can cite two dozen that say the opposite. If you have BP issues, salt is deadly. If you can handle salt, then it has zero effect on your health."
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ok strntz, here are 2 doctors ... Dr. David C. Gardner and Dr. Grace Joely Beatty that say salt is bad for you
now site 2 dozen doctors that say the opposite
Someone told me once : "show me a doctor that will live 100 years".
shareand what did you say?
shareThe doctors tell you...in general speaking,what is good and what is bad,but do you actually think that they apply those advices for them and their family?I don't think so.
shareBoy, I can attest to that! My ex-husband was a physician. He used to lecture people about the need to quit smoking. He started smoking in medical school! Of course he finally gave it up after a number of years.
But he had the appetite of a horse, got up in the middle of the night to eat, ate junk food, drank soda. He was easily fifty or sixty pounds overweight. But he lectured his patients about the need to lose weight! At his worst, he was about eighty pounds overweight but he developed adult onset diabetes. He lost a few pounds because he panicked when his blood sugar skyrocketed.
So yeah, doctors don't always follow their own advice.
I rarely use salt myself. I rarely add it to cooking. I do have it on the table for my family to use.
I use pepper mostly. I like red pepper in oil for my pasta and eggs.
Dearly love salty stuff but probably that's partially the cause for a diagnosis of stage 5 kidney disease. Along with high blood pressure. So, trying to acclimate to food without salt. Probably too little, too late. Garrh. Not sure living without salt is worth it...
shareSorry to hear that
Best wishes and stay well
Sorry to hear that,my mother is sick too,so i know how it feels.
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