8 Ways to Cut Salt Out of Your Diet
The FDA is pondering whether it should regulate sodium in foods. Meantime, here's how you can
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Salt
Approximately half the people diagnosed with hypertension are not salt sensitive, meaning even drastically cutting sodium out of the diet (tomatoes and celery contain sodium) will not affect their blood pressure.
What is the reasoning behind restricting salt for these folks?
Cutting Salt from diet
While cooking at home is your best bet, you REALLY need to be careful about the meat you buy. That big discount store has almost NO meat that isn't loaded with salt-- "guaranteed tender and juicy" because of the sodium/broth added. Another chain also has lots of meat with sodium added. Many friends who were on low-salt before me didn't know this and I've worked hard to educate people. Thanksgiving is a nightmare because it is almost impossible in our town to buy a turkey w/o salt added. The locally owned market where I shop was VERY responsive to getting chicken w/o added sodium. Consequently, I buy all my meat there.
