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...Also, salt sometimes complicates cirrhosis of the liver and possibly high blood pressure. Yet in many parts of the U.S. and Canada, says Alberta's Dr. George B. Elliott, the benefits of the low-salt diet are wiped out by the water that patients drink-water loaded with sodium in any of several salts, including sodium chloride (common salt...
...General Hospital on a low-salt diet, only to have him return bloated, 30 lbs. heavier, and with his heart failing. The man insisted that he had stuck to his diet. Dr. Elliott had the man's well water tested. It contained 4,200 parts per million of sodium-as against fewer than 50 p.p.m. in Calgary's city water...
Softening for Lather. City water supplies in the U.S. and Canada, mostly drawn from fast mountain rivers, are in general safely low in sodium. But some rivers are loaded with the stuff. The Arkansas River reaches 1,770 p.p.m. in the fall and cannot be used for drinking water. Moreover, a city's river water may be hard (because of calcium and magnesium carbonates), and housewives want it soft for washing; so the engineers soften it, often by replacing the calcium with sodium. One eminent cardiologist at a Midwestern hospital was puzzled when his heart-failure patients suddenly...
...Duke University, in North Carolina, Dr. Walter Kempner, who pioneered the rigorous low-sodium regimen (as part of his famous "rice diet"), has laid down the accepted rule: "If the sodium concentration of the plain water available is greater than 20 p.p.m., distilled water should be used." Many of his patients are put on bottled water when they go home. But the brand has to be specified: some bottled spring waters are laced with salts not mentioned on the label...
...land has a fierce and lonely beauty all its own-windswept plateaus, shifting seas of sand, canyons slashing down through layers of sandstone, and, always on the far horizon, mountains of barren granite. Beneath the ground is a fabulous treasure of coal, oil, sodium, magnesium, potassium, uranium. Coursing through the entire region-from Wyoming to Utah and Colorado, on to Arizona, New Mexico and California-is one of the greatest of U.S. river systems. Starting as a trickle in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River sweeps south and west to absorb such tributaries as the Gunnison River, the Roaring Fork...