Japan is also the country with the second highest life expectancy in the world. Is salt really that bad? How long would they live if they followed WHO's recommendations?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...
If we eat oil like Mediterranean fat like Intuit's, carb like Raramurii, protein like Americans will have worst health of all.
Also the Japanese diet is interesting. It's actually not low-calorie pound-per-pound, but the portion sizes are much smaller. The Japanese just eat less than Americans.
It has also a surprisingly small amount of greens. There is usually a pickled vegetable dish on the side, but that's it.
No, salt is good because it helps you to eat unpalatable, nutritious food.
I was wondering, does exercise purge "extra" salt?
also, since this is japan, would they have a chopsticks model? Maybe this is for soup. Or an export version. Japanese ramen spoons have a different shape.
IIRC sweating is the only way for the body to get rid of salt, so on paper, yes. But it's probably not as simple as that.
No. Your kidneys do this, assuming they work correctly.
Soy sauce is in basically everything, it's full of salt.
tl;dr: Higher (yes, higher) sodium intake correlated with longer life expectancy and lower mortality but the study was observational and not a basis for dietary recommendations.
Here's a brief video that makes the claim that you probably need more salt in your diet. He has 3 more salt videos, if you're intrigued.
You probably need more salt (short): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02rgtB0Bxi0
Salt: Are you getting Enough?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amJ-ev8Ial8
WHY Low Salt Stresses the Body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bNdhM4vt4I
Low Sodium's link to Fat Gain & Insulin Resistance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ygExIZm7Wo
As aren't you (and i). And why should i listen to a random Hacker dude? Or a smoking doctor? Dou you think every GP is a nutritionist? And even then...
He does two things that increase believability: he cites papers and studies, and he runs experiments on himself. This is good.
He does one thing that decreases believability: he only cites papers and studies that reinforces his contrarian points, and benignly ignores the rest. This is called being a YouTube influencer.
In ML terms, his content has high precision and low recall -- he optimizes for true positives but not false negatives. It's a form of confirmation bias. You can still use his data (which I assume to be correctly sourced), but you might want to be skeptical of his conclusions by seeking your own disconfirming evidence.
Show us, then. He cites his sources. The least you can do is do the same.