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Cucumbers are trendy, but how healthy are they?

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My second favorite vegetable, right after carrots. I think I'm part rabbit, part kappa!

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One word of caution is that one very frequent way to consume cucumbers in Japan is in "Tsukemono" pickles, that is quite high on sodium, so people must be careful not to surpass healthy levels of consumption. Fortunately other ways of eating it (fresh, in salads, in vinegar as "sumono", etc.) don't have this problem.

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Cucumbers are trendy???

*And while the online world might find them new and exciting, cucumbers .......*

Like where has this reporter been for decades or maybe he is quite young!!!

The 2 countries I know best - Australia and Japan - cucumbers have been mainstays for generations and generations.

But SMS has "discovered" them so they must be cool (as).

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We like to eat cucumbers with our lunchtime salad but the price increased and we stopped buying them. I like pickled cucumbers or gherkins.

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The article talks about cucumbers as if they were all the same. As someone who comes from a small town with lots of private vegetable gardens, I can testify that the greenhouse mass produced vegetables found in the supermarket are a completely different animal than earth-grown vegetables. I wonder which of the two the vitamin and mineral content mentioned in the article refers to.

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Yeah, cucumbers are great! But I don't really like eating them in the middle of winter. Couldn't you have found an article on something more season appropriate?

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Cheese, cucumber, mayo with a sprinkle of black pepper in a white bread sandwich.

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When I read recall because of dangerous salmonella I knew straight away this was a USAmerican article because I never heard of any veggies being recall in Japan. That when I also stop reading the article because not at all interested what go on the USA. I read Japan Today because I am interested in issue concerning Japan. The segment is about Heath foods and only woke effect countries would use the term Trendy concerning cucumber. No decent Japanese journalist would unless they want to loose readership. How bad must a country environment get when there is salmonella in their Veggies.

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salt is a essential in your diet. Do believe idiot with out any certification tell you salt is bad Your doctor will tell you if you need to cut back on you salt intake. If the doctor was to comment about your diet the first would be to cut back on your sugar then comes fats then maybe salts.

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John-San

salt is a essential in your diet. Do believe idiot with out any certification tell you salt is bad Your doctor will tell you if you need to cut back on you salt intake.

Exactly. That idea is based on the ridiculous idea that the body is nothing more than a container where increase the salt content by adding salt and lower it by removing salt. Instead of a complex living system that constantly regulates the sodium-potassium balance because it is so important for it.

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If the doctor was to comment about your diet the first would be to cut back on your sugar then comes fats then maybe salts.

So you first claim that people should not listen except to their doctors, and them make baseless claims about what people have to do and what to cut from their diets even if you know nothing about them nor you claim to be a doctor? It is difficult to make a more self defeating argument.

Exactly. That idea is based on the ridiculous idea that the body is nothing more than a container where increase the salt content by adding salt and lower it by removing salt. 

No, it is not. The ridiculous idea you mention is yours alone, in no moment the risks associated with sodium in the diet depend on such over simplification. The scientific consensus of the risks that come with unhealthy levels of sodium is well proved with plenty of evidence and applies to many kinds of risks, this is why doctors routinely ask their patients about it when they have any of the many conditions that can be aggravated by salt.

https://www.cdc.gov/salt/about/index.html

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-types/salt-in-your-diet/

https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/salt-and-sodium/

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Virus. you are wrong, you call heat exposure heatstroke when a victim as no evidence of having a medical stroke. but only evidence of dehydration big differences. You say 30c is a heatwave when I and many other don't even get a sweat up. I and a larger population work manual labour compare to office worker who really get up a sweat and when I comparing the two one will expel 1or 2 litre compare to a manual laborer 6 to 10 litre and large amount of salt and electrolytes ( salt ) are expelled which need to be replace or dehydration occurs so a larger portion of the population need to replace these salts that why in place where manual labour is presents there is also salt tablets dispenser at the water fountains or they add it to their food intake when your body carve it. It call body function.

When you a labour and don't replace the lost of salt server cramping occur and I have taking these men to hostipal where they have spent the night on a saline drip replacing the lost salts. So you are totally incorrect. Salt intake is essential needed in peoples diet.

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Virus. you are wrong, you call heat exposure heatstroke when a victim as no evidence of having a medical stroke. 

There is exactly nothing related to heatstroke in the article nor anybody have been talking about heatstroke, are you making off topic comments on purpose or are you confused about which article are you commenting.

 You say 30c is a heatwave when I and many other don't even get a sweat up

Same, exactly zero relevance to this article, not to mention this is a baseless accusation. Are you taunting the mods?

What actual arguments do you have to refute what the CDC, NHS and Harvard university say about taking care of not consuming excessive amounts of salt?

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Virus: You have state heatstroke and you know it we have argue over it many time. It is there to remind you of what you have stated as fact before that totally wrong . 30 c is a heatwave which you have stated many time and heatstroke which you assume incorrectly as the term for Heat exposure. It was A PREAMBLE to my reply about your incorrect assumption of Salt and Electrolytes and pass statement of fact you have posted.

Has for this. CDC, NHS and Harvard university say about taking care of not consuming excessive amounts of salt?

Was it done on the larger population which their work is Manual Labour ? No it was not. It was done on university volunteer which I have to remind you that do not exert themself pass picking up a pen.

So reframe from give advice on medical condition you will injure people.

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Virus: You have state heatstroke and you know it we have argue over it many time

Heatstroke has zero relevance about this article, and your baseless accusation are still false, easily proved the moment you could not bring any link to prove them.

There is zero assumption from my part about salt and electrolytes, much less in this article.

Was it done on the larger population which their work is Manual Labour ? 

What larger population are you talking about, the recommendations apply in general to everybody, taking excessive sodium lead to health risks that are clinically relevant.

Can you prove with references that manual labour makes people immune to cardiat risks? to hypertension? because if not that still means the medical institutions are correct and you are trying to make misrepresentations to defend a flawed claim you now recognize mistaken which is why you make baseless accusations about other commenters instead of arguing.

So, can you prove the institutions are wrong? if not they are simply a much more reliable source of medical information.

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