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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-salt-reduction-and-exercise/">Dr. Mirkin: Salt Reduction and Exercise</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted June 7, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Martha Jones</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Most doctors recommend low salt diets because of the evidence that taking in too much salt can cause high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart attacks and strokes. However, this may not be good advice for dedicated exercisers. If you exercise heavily and restrict salt, you will not replace the salt you lose through sweating, which can cause high blood pressure as well as fatigue, cramps and muscle pain. When the body is low in salt, the adrenal glands produce large amounts of aldosterone and the kidneys produce renin, which constricts arteries and can raise blood pressure. Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine showed that people on low-salt diets are actually more likely to suffer heart attacks than those on high salt diets (Journal of General Internal Medicine, June 2008).&nbsp; They analyzed data from the Third…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-salt-reduction-and-exercise/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-salt-reduction-and-exercise/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-salt-reduction-and-exercise/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-salt-reduction-and-exercise/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a><br /><br /> </P>