By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: There's no point talking about—or restricting—the consumption of table salt without considering the potassium level of an individual. So says Dr. Lee in this discussion of the critical relationship between the minerals sodium and potassium in the body. "The present custom of restricting salt for patients with cardiovascular disease seems to be an ill-advised substitute for balancing up their potassium-sodium intake. A deficiency of potassium may be a primary cause of the very condition in which sodium is being restricted, and [more dietary] potassium [may] be the real remedy needed." 1951.
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