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I'm known in my family for "Putting salt on my salt,", or having an excess amount of salt on my food. It's awful; I know. My family and I make jokes, and they've become accustomed to the way I eat my food. What I do is, I'll be eating with a fork or something in one hand, while I use my other hand's pointer finger to eat salt. Like, I'll wet it slightly with my tongue, and dip it in a large pile I keep on the side of my plate. I dip my finger in the salt on average about once or twice per bite of food. If I'm eating steak or Chinese food, it can be up to four or five. I use my finger, as well as load salt on the actual food. And I put it on everything. I even have to load up my Ramen noodles with salt.
As I mentioned earlier, my family is used to this. But if a guest comes over or something, they can get quite appalled. My older sister's friend, who is an extreme health nut, ate dinner with us, and we were having steak (Well, my sister and him are vegetarians, but the the rest of us ate steak). He stared at me as if he were watching a train wreck, haha.
The point is, it's really getting out of hand. It's been this way since I was about 5. When I was younger, I would even pour salt on my hand and lick it. I can sometimes get these excruciating pains in my calf's at night. I hear that can be caused from a lack of Potassium, which in turn can be caused from excess sodium. I looooove food. Problem is, I love salt on like, 80% of my food. I've tried having a meal without salt once or twice, and I couldn't make it through two bites. Everything tastes teeeeeerrible without it!
I want to live a long time. I don't want to leave this earth from a heart attack. I want to enjoy my life, be a grandparent, die old. I know I'm slowly killing myself with salt. But, even with this in mind, I cannot stop. I've come to terms with it: I'm totally addicted. It tastes sooooooo good. So I suppose my question is... Is there anything I can do to stop this? I don't want to be that dependent on something that can be so lethal. Can anyone help me? Thank you for reading this painfully-long question. (link)
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I can see where your coming from. I'm a huge salt addict myself. Although it's not such a severe case as yours.
Well, your body needs salt, also because it has iodine which your body needs. However, too much of anything is a bad thing. Salt in itself causes high blood pressure, amongst reserving water in your body, kind of like bloating.
These days, there's more salt already added to the food you eat than you need. So adding more salt is basically asking for high blood pressure.
Here's a reliable website about a few major things about sodium: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sodium/NU00284
Start small, cut a little bit of salt out of your diet every day. You'll eventually become accustomed to food without salt and won't feel the urge to eat it so frequently, if at all.
Definitely take a glance at the website I searched because it really has some knowledgeable information.
Hope I helped!
Jackieee
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Haha, I'm glad someone can relate. Thank you for your help and suggestions. :D
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