Healthnotes Newswire (October 11, 2007)—People who exercise strenuously lose critical nutrients in their sweat, most notably sodium. New research shows that women might also lose enough calcium during strenuous exercise to warrant taking extra to compensate.
Healthnotes Newswire (May 31, 2007)—Reducing sodium intake is a well known first-line treatment for high blood pressure (hypertension), and the more salt is restricted, the more positive impact the change has on health. But the cardiovascular benefits of cutting down on sodium don’t stop at blood pressure reduction: new research has found that eating less salt also seems to prevent other cardiovascular diseases.
“Until now, there have been few observational studies and virtually no trial data to show the effect of sodium intake on cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke,” said Nancy R. Cook, ScD, associate professor of Medicine (Biostatistics) at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the new study.
