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Buckeye_Democrat

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7. My sister's husband was recently hospitalized again...

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Thu May 6, 2021, 01:36 PM

May 2021

... for heart issues, and his doctors were loudly admonishing him about salt too!

Their main focus was restaurants, telling him to not even believe claims of low-sodium options from big-chain restaurants.

It thrilled my sister because he keeps wanting to drag her along with him to Cracker Barrel and other socially-packed eateries! They're both vaccinated, but she despises taking any pointless risks with him.

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"If you're eating food from a box, from a can or from any package you're eating fucking salt!" [View all] Floyd R. Turbo May 2021 OP

The doc is right. lark May 2021 #1

Wow. I don't talk to my patients like that... Aristus May 2021 #2

But don't you wish you could? ret5hd May 2021 #3

It's the Sam Kinison school of bedside mannerism EYESORE 9001 May 2021 #4

It could have been said more tactfully, but he wasn't wrong. Ocelot II May 2021 #8

I wasn't saying the medical information was wrong, Aristus May 2021 #9

True. Most people tend not to process information as well Ocelot II May 2021 #10

I can't count how many times a patient of mine has said: Aristus May 2021 #11

I was told I'd be a candidate for a heart attack if I kept eating the amount of sodium I do JuJuChen May 2021 #5

There are other opinions... aka-chmeee May 2021 #6

My sister's husband was recently hospitalized again... Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #7

I don't usually eat processed food because of this. The salt. The fucking salt. betsuni May 2021 #12

Not necessarily true Generic Brad May 2021 #13

The balance of sodium and potassium is more important TexasBushwhacker May 2021 #14

yes... so much salt in processed food, it's ridiculous. I've given up on canned soup Demovictory9 May 2021 #15