Thu, Aug-23-12, 09:40
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Real food!
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Plan: Lower Carb/IF
Stats: 238/155/140
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Progress: 85%
Location: NorCal
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Originally Posted by bike2work
I'm glad to have justification to eat salt, I use it liberally anyway, but I can't square this with paleo thinking. Was salt easily available to our ancestors? Would they have consumed it in such large quantities?
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Probably not. Some modern hunter-gatherer societies eat more salt, and some don't, but Paleolithic man probably ate low sodium intake, but much higher potassium intake. Chris Kessler has an interesting blog post regarding this issue: http://chriskresser.com/shaking-up-...n-need-for-salt |