{"id":16492,"date":"2010-01-23T01:01:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T06:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=16492"},"modified":"2010-01-22T12:36:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:36:35","slug":"the-secret-to-skinny-how-salt-makes-you-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/the-secret-to-skinny-how-salt-makes-you-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret To Skinny: How Salt Makes You Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a title=\"nutrition twins\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/the-secret-to-skinny-how-salt-makes-you-fat\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16498\" title=\"nutrition twins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/nutrition-twins.jpg\" alt=\"nutrition twins\" width=\"221\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>Guest bloggers,\u00a0Tammy Lakatos Shames, RD, CDN, CFT and Lyssie Lakatos, RD, CDN, CFT (a.k.a. The Nutrition Twin\u00ae) are registered dietitians and certified personal trainers. They share a nutrition consulting practice and are co-authors of <\/em>The Secret To Skinny: How Salt Makes You Fat and The 4-Week Plan to Drop a Size &amp; Get Healthier with Simple Low-Sodium Swaps<em> (HCI, Fall 2026) and <\/em>Fire Up Your Metabolism: 9 Proven Principles for Burning Fat and Losing Weight Forever <em>(Simon and Schuster, 2004). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Twins are regularly featured as nutrition experts on The Fox News Channel, Good Morning America and Discovery Health Channel and regularly appear on national radio stations, as well as print and online publications. Check out <a title=\"nutrition twins\" href=\"http:\/\/NutritionTwins.com\/twins\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Nutrition Twins<\/a>&#8216; website to learn more from this dynamic duo. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>As registered dietitians and certified personal trainers, we\u2019ve spent more than a decade helping thousands of clients get healthy and achieve the bodies they longed for.\u00a0Our most recent diet discovery compelled us to write <a title=\"the secret to skinny\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/the-secret-to-skinny\/\" target=\"_self\">The Secret To Skinny<\/a>: How Salt Makes You Fat, as we found what we consider the missing link when it comes to weight loss: Salt. It\u2019s seemingly innocent, and often invisible, so most people don\u2019t pay it any attention when it comes to weight loss.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Salt increases your risk for <a title=\"heart disease\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/understanding-obesity-related-diseases-heart-disease\/\" target=\"_self\">heart disease<\/a>, increases inflammation, ages you and bloats you. Salt also makes you fat.\u00a0Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Salt makes your fat cells denser because they hold more fat.<\/li>\n<li>Salt makes you hungrier.<\/li>\n<li>Salt makes you thirstier because you end up quenching your thirst with caloric beverages.<\/li>\n<li>Salt increases cravings resulting in excess calorie intake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aim for less than 2,400 mg sodium a day. For comparison sake, the average intake is between\u00a03,500 and 5,500 mg a day. <a title=\"secret to skinny\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/the-secret-to-skinny-how-salt-makes-you-fat\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16503\" title=\"secret to skinny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/secret-to-skinny.gif\" alt=\"secret to skinny\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great news salt lovers!\u00a0In less than three weeks after cutting back, your taste buds adjust and you\u2019ll no longer want as much salt. Try these Skinny swaps to slash the salt and shrink your waistline:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Swap your cottage cheese (240 calories, 800 mg sodium\/ cup) for an egg (75 calories, 65mg sodium). Do this daily and save 17 pounds and 111 days of sodium a year.<\/li>\n<li>Go for low-sodium whole grain bread instead of the regular version and save at least 45 full days worth of sodium a year!\u00a0The <a title=\"low sodium diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Low-Sodium-Diet\/\" target=\"_self\">low-sodium<\/a> bread won\u2019t increase your cravings like other breads; think of the calories you\u2019ll save by not having to give in to cravings.<\/li>\n<li>Swap one tablespoon of\u00a0salted butter in cooking for cooking spray. Then flavor with herbs and spices.\u00a0Do this once a day and you\u2019ll save 10.5 pounds and 14.5 days worth of sodium this year.<\/li>\n<li>Ditch that serving of Goldfish crackers.\u00a0Snack on 30 pistachio nuts, even the\u00a0salted ones.\u00a0Do this daily and save 14 full days of sodium and\u00a0five pounds this year.<\/li>\n<li>To be five pounds lighter tomorrow swap General Tso\u2019s Chicken for a cup each of chicken and snow peas, brown rice, and steamed broccoli.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest bloggers,\u00a0Tammy Lakatos Shames, RD, CDN, CFT and Lyssie Lakatos, RD, CDN, CFT (a.k.a. The Nutrition Twin\u00ae) are registered dietitians and certified personal trainers. They share a nutrition consulting practice and are co-authors of The Secret To Skinny: How Salt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/the-secret-to-skinny-how-salt-makes-you-fat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[157,23,2926,29,3026,803,2925],"class_list":["post-16492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-diets","tag-guest-blog","tag-lyssie-lakatos","tag-nutrition","tag-nutrition-twins","tag-sodium","tag-tammy-lakatos-shames"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16492"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16501,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492\/revisions\/16501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}