Why are drinks with electrolytes considered healthy while foods rich in sodium (instant noodles) considered unhealthy?
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Drinks with electrolytes are sold as post exercise drinks. Exercising makes you sweat, and when you sweat you lose both water and minerals from your body. A drink with electrolytes replaces both the fluid and those minerals. However, if you haven’t been sweating, then you will have too many of those minerals in your body, and so you will keep more water in your blood to dilute them, which will raise your blood pressure until you wee them out.
Noodles aren’t marketed at post exercise fluid and salt replacement. They are marketed at eating cheaply, easily and tastily. You will get high blood pressure before weeing out the extra salts from them as well.
If you keep on consuming too many salts, your blood pressure will be too high frequently, and that isn’t good for your heart.
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