{"id":176124,"date":"2023-11-16T05:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T11:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/cutting-1-teaspoon-of-salt-works-as-well-as-blood-pressure-meds-study-finds"},"modified":"2023-11-16T05:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T11:22:25","slug":"cutting-1-teaspoon-of-salt-works-as-well-as-blood-pressure-meds-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/cutting-1-teaspoon-of-salt-works-as-well-as-blood-pressure-meds-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Cutting 1 teaspoon of salt works as well as blood pressure meds, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cutting-1-teaspoon-of-salt-works-as-well-as-blood-pressure-meds-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cutting 1 teaspoon of salt from your diet each day can lower your top blood pressure reading just as much as a typical hypertension medication, even if you don\u2019t have high blood pressure, a new study found.<\/p>\n<p>A teaspoon of salt is 2,300 milligrams \u2014 that\u2019s the top daily limit for people over 14 recommended by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC8713704\/#:~:text=Sodium%E2%80%94less%20than%202300%20mg, women%2C%20when%20alcohol%20is%20consumed.\" rel=\"nofollow\">latest U.S. nutritional guidelines<\/a>. However, the American Heart Association <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/-\/media\/files\/health-topics\/answers-by-heart\/why-should-i-limit-sodium.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">recommends<\/a> a diet with less than 1,500 milligrams of sodium a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting 1 teaspoon of salt from your diet each day can lower your top blood pressure reading just as much as a typical hypertension medication, even if you don\u2019t have high blood pressure, a new study found. A teaspoon of salt is 2,300 milligrams \u2014 that\u2019s the top daily limit for people over 14 recommended [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}