The Pink Salt Diet
As I meander through social media to get a sense of what’s going on out there in the health field, I happened upon something called the pink salt diet. Sure enough, I got a question asking me about it a short time later.
After research, I’d say the only thing you may get from the pink salt diet is high blood pressure if you’re sensitive to sodium.
The diet consists of Himalayan pink salt at varying amounts, lemon or lime, sometimes sugar or honey and water. You’re supposed to drink the concoction 30 minutes before eating. Something magical is supposed to happen that acts like a GLP-1 agonist—maybe even better than that because it’s all natural. Sounds to me like the Margarita diet, and if you drink one before every meal, you’ll probably eat less. But…
This reminds me of the old Stillman water diet; you were supposed to drink water with lemon several times per day. Oh, and you weren’t supposed to eat more than 500 calories per day. What do you think really helped you lose the weight? The water or the 500 calories per day?
There’s some research to suggest that drinking an 8-ounce glass of water before you eat may help you eat less. I would think mixing in a teaspoon of fiber might be an even better approach, but there are no short cuts to losing weight and keeping it off: eat less, eat better, move more. For life. Salt your food if you want to and enjoy your Margarita, but it’s not a weight loss plan.
What are you prepared to do today?
