Salt

[Coeco]

Is salt in some of your food any dangerous when you're trying to loose weight? It really gives oatmeal (etc) a generally good taste if you're not a big fan of it

[Spartacus Sully]

its an electrolyte it tends to asorbe water if your exercising and sweating alot you will sweat most sodiumn out

[Sugarj]

I tend not to add salt to my meals, the food we eat often contains more than we'd guess and its very easy to exceed the recommended daily salt intake anyway!

We do need salt to function, as Ylem says it is an electrolyte. If you train hard sweaty cardio work on a day where you have touched very little salt ie just ate fruit (not bananas!) and drank water, you may notice that you get an annoying headache and a drained feeling afterwards, its due to lack of salt in your system!

But it will dehydrate you in sufficient quantity and can lead to problems later in life with high blood pressure etc.

[Kinetic Linking]

******ed question, the goal is to train hard and eat nourishing food, not "loose" weight. Salt is fine, obviously. Anyone who tells you not to eat salt is ******ed.

[danny stash]

******ed question, the goal is to train hard and eat nourishing food, not "loose" weight. Salt is fine, obviously. Anyone who tells you not to eat salt is ******ed.

Are you just on here to assert your infinite wisdom over everything? Do me a favor and beat it you know it all. Course you need salt, eat to much sodium though and you retain unnessary water and if you were a competitive fighter you would know the impact this can have on performance and making weight.

[AssasinKing]

******ed question, the goal is to train hard and eat nourishing food, not "loose" weight. Salt is fine, obviously. Anyone who tells you not to eat salt is ******ed.

Why is it a ******ed question? Excessive salt is very bad for you....

I do as Sugarj said and dont really add salt to meals as they already contain salt and somtimes to much....

As for adding it to oatmeal...i mean once your not adding too much, you wanna keep it balanced...and when your tryin to eat healthy why not jst eat it as it is...or find something you do like that is just as healthy

[Kinetic Linking]

you're right this wasn't a ******ed question. Adding salt to oatmeal is an interesting, useful topic of discussion.

[Alexandros]

Is salt in some of your food any dangerous when you're trying to loose weight? It really gives oatmeal (etc) a generally good taste if you're not a big fan of it

yes, salt makes u retain more water in your body makes you more heavier and makes your blood pressure high.

[DeepSleep]

Off topic a bit but if your looking for a healthier alternative to spruce up oatmeal with try honey.

[JoHnNyBoXeR]

salt retains water... alot of food we eat already has salt so u dont need to add more.. stay away from cup of noodles and those ramen soups they have a gizilllion mgs of salt.. and cold cuts(deli meats) are very salty also

oo yea and i eat my oatmeal plain and i love it .. but in your case add a banana and its also very good like that.. just smush it up and microwave it with the banana