• Savarosa@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Isn’t too much potassium a bad thing also? That’s why you cant buy good amount of potassium supplements in the usa?

    Btw, I do have the salt replacement in my kitchen - it definitely works if you just need something a bit saltier. But by itself it tastes a bit off.

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        4 days ago

        It’s also dangerous to people who are on blood pressure medications

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          4 days ago

          They do mention it in the article. Running the numbers, it makes sense as a trade off. If you’re on BP meds, it’s easy to educate you about what you need to watch out for or avoid.

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            4 days ago

            It just doesn’t make sense.
            Why make an everyday product that people over consume - harmful for a part of the population?
            The original problem that informed people still eat too much salt… Because everyone knows too much salt is bad for you.

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              4 days ago

              Public health is about making the populace healthier despite themselves. See cigarettes for example. At the national level, everything’s about cost / benefit.

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                If that’s would be true.
                Look what they did to vaping in the US - now its either cigarettes or disposable with 50mg salt nic.
                They intentionally killed the 3mg or 6mg devices - for the better good?
                Vaping was harm reduction - now it is just or even more addicting than cigarettes.

                And they keep doing the $ over people - this was only one example.

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                  Isn’t all that essentially unauthorised? Idk much about US FDA decisions. Then again, pointing to anything the US is doing right now is of questionable value.

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        3 days ago

        Not true. If you have kidney disease, you should just plain avoid potassium chloride salt substitutes. Its significantly more dangerous than even excessive salt.

        Yes, I realize they’re not speaking about salt substitutes here.