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MENIERE\'S DISEASE: UNDERSTANDING A LOW SALT DIET
Low salt diets provide little if any relief for the deafness and tinnitus, but they can be very effective against the vertigo. Remission is often complete even in severe cases, without drugs or surgery.
The commonest reason for failure is that most supermarket foods contain far more added salt than most people realize (taste is no guide). About 10% of the salt in the average diet is the salt naturally present in food (the salt you need) and only 15% is cooking salt or table salt. A massive 75% is the salt added to processed foods.
Australian dietary guidelines
The national guideline, \'choose low salt foods\', is intended for the whole population. It is universally ignored but relief of vertigo is your likely reward for following it. Eat any fresh foods but choose only low salt processed foods. Salt is sodium chloride, and the Food Standards Code defines low salt foods as foods with a sodium content not exceeding 120 milligrams per 100 grams (120 mg/l00g).
Most processed foods have a Nutrition Information Panel. Find the l00g column, find the word \'sodium\' and then read across to see the sodium figure in the l00g column. Avoid foods with sodium above 120 mg/l00g or with no nutrition panel.
Kellogg\'s Corn Flakes at the time of writing have a sodium content of 1020 mg/l00g, yet their Mini-Wheats have only 5 mg/l00g. Sanitarium makes Weet-Bix with salt (280 mg/l00g) and Litebix without salt (20 mg/ 100g).
Look at the sodium in the Coles Farmland no added salt\' range. People who read nutrition panels accurately can virtually choose whether to accept the vertigo or abolish it.
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GENERAL HEALTH
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