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Article: The true North -- Strong when salt free.
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- November 15, 2009
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A move from a traditional diet to the sodium-laden Western diet is fuelling a spike in the blood pressure of the Inuit in Canada's North, Dr. Marie-Ludivine Chateau-Degat told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. "This is a population currently undergoing a significant dietary transition away from their traditional diet - which includes large amounts of fish and marine products - to a Western diet," Dr. Chateau-Degat told the meeting. "Both diastolic and systolic blood pressures increased with amount of sodium consumed."
Previous studies, she says, have reported low ...