A low sodium diet limits high sodium foods and beverages. Healthcare professionals typically recommend these diets to treat conditions such as high blood pressure or heart disease. Sodium is an ...

Anyone who’s been told to try a low-sodium diet knows that cutting back on sodium can be a real challenge. It’s often not enough to put down the salt shaker; it’s also a matter of reading nutrition ...

High blood pressure, or hypertension, is now increasingly being diagnosed in Indians in their 20s and 30s. But nearly half of ...

To do so, the researchers ran advanced simulations to identify how different diets affect blood pressure. They looked at what happens in the body, specifically the kidneys, hormones, and fluid ...

The new finding has come off the back of a research project. With a study undertaken on mice, it was found that a high-salt diet led to a rise in sodium accumulation within the skin of mice. This, in ...

The link between diet and depression is a critical area of research. It could lead to finding effective strategies to treat depression. A study found that mice who consumed a high-salt diet developed ...

Salt has always been linked to high blood pressure, but scientists are now discovering that the real culprit may not be just the kidneys. A groundbreaking study from McGill University shows that too ...

A new study finds that a high-salt diet triggers brain inflammation that drives up blood pressure. The research, led by McGill University scientist Masha Prager-Khoutorsky in collaboration with an ...

One of the easiest things you can do is to eliminate (or strictly limit) certain foods that are especially hard on your heart ...

Low-sodium soy sauce, soup and snacks dominate supermarket shelves, so it seems pretty obvious that a lot of Americans are aware that they need to lower their sodium intake. But to what extent is it ...

If you've ever spoken to someone with kidney stones, you've probably heard that it's one of the worst pains ever.

A new study published in The Journal of Immunology found that a high-salt diet (HSD) induces depression-like symptoms in mice by driving the production of a protein called IL-17A. This protein has ...