Have they increased the amount of salt in ham and bacon these days?

[RATTER15]

Well, I ask this because I always used to love ham or bacon sandwiches for an evening snack before I went to bed.

I now find that if I eat either before bedtime im up 2 or 3 times in the night drinking.

Is this because they have increased the amount of salt in the product or is it just that my body in its advancing years is not able to cope with salt as well as it used to?

[4getmenot]

just buy unsmoked bacon

[RATTER15]

We only buy unsmoked bacon!

[ubasses]

Hate to say it, but think it could be advancing years. I do not have any evening snacks but over the last couple of years I have been getting through a glass of squash everynight, despite trying to drink more fluids during the day.

[4getmenot]

oh :-/

[ummmm]

The cheaper it is the more salt there is.....and water.

[237SJ]

Supermarket ham and bacon has always been pumped full of salt and water (regardless of whether it`s smoked or not). If anything the levels of salt and water have been reduced. Maybe it`s North Devon water Ratter. When my mum lived there she used to get up every night to go to the loo. Now that she has moved near me she sleeps through the night. When I go home to Devon I can taste the chlorine in the tap water. Maybe that is what keeps you going to the loo all night.

[DTCwordfan]

the moral of the story here - stick to wine, not water, or maybe the cider.......

[starone]

You might need to check for diabetes if you have to keep drinking.

[888]

diabetic?

[RATTER15]

237SJ, But its only been the last couple of years, I dont need to keep getting up to pee, just to drink, thankfully I still have a bladder you can bounce bullets off!!

[237SJ]

Maybe it`s the dreaded P word Ratter. A friend of mine is only 51 but his prostate gets him up a couple of times every night.

[237SJ]

Whoops, I didn`t read your answer properly.

[hc4361]

He's drinking, not weeing, so not the p word.

There is less salt in food now because of the health police who have said salt is BAD.

Avoid bacon for a night or two and see if it makes any difference. If it doesn't, get checked for diabetes.

[starone]

My husband had diabetes and one of the main symptoms was excessive drinking. He would take a couple of bottles of lemonade to bed every night and every now and then I would wake up to the sound of glug, glug, glug, he was so desperate to quench his thirst. We did not know it at the time but he was making it worse because there was sugar in the lemonade.

[RATTER15]

I dont often have ham or bacon these day before bed. I will often wake for a swig but not gagging like I do with ham or bacon.