bbc.co.uk/news/health-47734296
Essentially this is a study I think we will mostly all agree with. To me, it reads that a highly processed diet, low in vegetables, fruit, wholegrains and fibre, is a big killer.
Unfortunately I think I might fall under the high salt category - I love olives a bit too much! But I'll go hunt out some alternative snacks 
Hi Cooper, this is sad news and thankfully healthy eating with exercise is the answer.
Junk food causes so many issues and it was on the news Monday that someone is diagnosed with type 2diabetes every 3 mins in England and Wales this is 200k pa.
So awareness of this is imperative so thanks for posting this.
Jerry 😊
I didn't realise the number was so high! Thankfully it is possible to intervene/reverse (though lets not get into that 
), we just need to keep spreading the word
Alternative snacks recommended by dietician: seeds and nuts. They contain good fats and fibre.
Thanks, I do like nuts, but I've had to cut them out for now due to stomach issues 
I can only really handle almond flour/almond butter.
Nuts do contain fibre, but in the commonly recommended dosages not that much.
A 30g daily intake of nuts might only provide 2g of fibre which is better than nothing, but not really much help in hitting 30 or 40g a day.
Of course, if someones doing paleo and having 200g of nuts daily it's a different matter.
This report is generally very welcome.
Salt is an interesting one. I think people eating processed foods underestimate the amount of salt in their diet. And when I say processed cheese is so loaded with salt, the worst offenders being cheese. People who consume a lot of salt regularly become so accustomed to it they even need to sprinkle it on everything. They tend to love ham, bacon, sausages, burgers, crisps/chips and the like which are largely heavy in salt. By processed foods I include junk vegan food as well.
Take all these foods out of your diet and rely largely on natural salts already in the foods then adding a bit of salt to ensure your family devours a full meal of healthy legumes, vegetables has to be a good thing. Over time even that little bit of salt can be removed as taste buds naturally adjust.
So if I am cooking a meal as a dinner for guests it will have more salt in it, because I know my guests are not used to a non-added salt level.
And yes, getting to a level where the only salts are those in foods naturally is ideal. But that is a long long way, a whole different world away from the Standard American Diet. This is a journey.
Hi Andy, I don't add salt when cooking unless its a low salt bouillon and let guests add salt.
If you like unsalted food Meridian make a salt free yeast extract which's also vegan. You realise how salt does change the flavour of foods.
Hi Cooper27
Thanks for sharing the details - I saw the headline on the news this morning, and was keen to hear more about it.
Zest
Many thanks, interesting comments on salt which is something I haven’t paid enough attention to.
I'm surprised the authorities are still wittering about salt. To observe that people who eat junk food are unhealthy and conclude "ahhh, that must be because of all the salt" is ... disingenuous. Low-salt junk food is still junk food. As you said, the takeaway message is to eat proper food, not to fiddle with this or that micronutrient.
Apart from anything else, people given free choice will consume exactly the right amount of salt, which is 5-6g per day. This is hardly surprising, since all other animals manage sodium homeostasis without the need to comply with AHA recommendations.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...
It drives me nuts how nutritionists start from the assumption that our bodies don't work very well and need to be nursemaided through life. Half of them seem to have never read a biology book and aren't aware of the astoundingly complex engineering inside us that works very, very well indeed under a wide variety of circumstances. There are very few things that throw it out of wack.
yeah, perhaps "surprised" was the wrong word
My point was that, even among The Establishment, it's fairly well accepted that (a) there are greater risks associated with low salt than with high salt, and (b) at the high end, the amount required to produce any noticeable problems is far higher than most people actually consume given free choice.
As for high BP: yes, it's pretty simple physics, isn't it.
Juicing some grapefruits 
Is this filling enough? 
Something Jerry might like to try out 👌😁😋
Newbie looking for some help!!!
