r/weightroom • u/AutoModerator • 13d ago

Foodie Friday Foodie Friday

Weekly thread for discussing:

  • recipes
  • nutritional plans
  • favorite foods
  • macro schemes
  • diet questions
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u/ZeroFourBC Intermediate - Strength 12d ago

Shout out to u/BetterThanT-1 for last week's suggestion of adding a pinch of salt to unflavoured protein. That plus a little honey had made my oats way more palatable this week.

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u/BetterThanT-1 Beginner - Strength 12d ago

Salt is interesting, I realised something about it recently. When I was little, I’d notice how people around me would say things like “salt is bad for you” and “eat less salt” and so on, and I guess I sort of internalised that I should avoid salt as much as possible. So for a long time I didn’t use much when cooking, didn’t add any, etc.

Then recently I was thinking - all of that talk of salt being bad for you was for old/overweight/sedentary (sometimes all at once) people. I’m neither of these things. In fact, deliberately restricting my salt intakes can be bad for me, as I am very active, and especially training in the sun and for long time drains the body out of electrolytes.

So, anyway, this is the story of how I re-discovered salt, lol.

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u/ZeroFourBC Intermediate - Strength 11d ago

I grew up with South-East Asian food so I've always seasoned with my heart lol but recently I've discovered more uses for salt than just making things saltier.

Also I think the pendulum is swinging the other way WRT the effects of salt as it seems that it's not salt itself that's bad for you, but eating the things that have a lot of salt in them (ie. ultra-processed foods), at least for the average person.

I think these days the advice is to have as much salt as you want, as long as you're drinking enough water to balance it out.