Anyone pay attention to their salt intake?
 

In an effort to monitor my eating habits, I have started paying attention to the labels on food.

Man is there a lot of sodium in all the crap we eat.

Smoked salmon, 2oz contains 28% of the recommended daily allowance?

WTF????

I lived with my aunt who had high blood pressure for a couple of years and she cooked with no salt, so I have developed distaste for it.

How about you guys?

If you look at the side of a can of soup.........that'll be the last can you ever have..........:mad:

If I recall, I had posted something about this on a thread you had started a little while back. As our hyperactive schedules and mothers going to the workplace has taken place in the last 40 or so years, much of what we eat now is processed. We buy their box of stuff, add meat and water and voila, dinner is served.

Anything smoked is going to have bad stuff in it. They say barbecued meat has lots of carcinogens in it, by I sure do love it. Regarding sodium, take a look at something like Hamburger Helper or Rice a Roni. They are full of salt. The manufacturers know that all that salt makes them taste a little better, but they are doing the comsumer a diservice by pumping all that sodium into us.

My mother was an RN who was into good nutrition. She never added salt to any of the recipes she made and kept the salt off of the table for the most part. We drank skim milk and ate wheat bread before the mainstream ever heard of such stuff.

Start watching you sodium intake and watch your BP go down. The salt is a direct contributing factor. When I posted to you before, I was very concerned about your BP. You have to stay around long enough to collect Social Security. You will get used to less salt. It is not that big of a deal when compared to your health.

I'm running 140/85. If I don't get it down with diet, the doc is going to recommend the pills.:o

It's a battle........I've got to watch every label........can hardly eat any ham or processed meats...........no soup..........basically, nothing that comes out of a can.

..........and I've got to stop arguing with the botanist..........:D

Yep. It's spooky, the amount....and...
 

I'm grounded.

Well, I wasn’t going to bring this up on the board. But I just got out of the hospital yesterday. I was in for a Mitral Valve repair performed on Tuesday. (The chords holding half the valve closed were failing to do so.) The good news is I got hooked up with the best doctors around, and was able to have what’s called a Heart Port procedure done. They go in through about a five inch incision through the right side (Odd sounding but true.) of your chest and not through your sternum. HIGHELY RECOMMENDED IF YOU QUALLIFY.

Anyway - The mention of salt here sparked a memory of sitting in my cardiologists office a few months ago. He had these clear plastic containers (about 15 or so) with various levels of salt in them. Each was labeled with what that amount of salt was in. Sports drink, can of chicken soup, cottage cheese, etc. I WAS BLOWN AWAY. I had no idea the foods we eat had that much salt in them. He had the same set up for sugars as well. Another mind blowing realization.

My BP usually runs in the 98/65 range. I guess I’m lucky. But after this, we are not going to let that luck run out. We’ve made (and are making) some changes around here. I’m looking at everything.

My personal plug - Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas is in my opinion the greatest group of folks you’ll ever wish you didn’t need.

I am happy to hear that the surgery went well, and I hope you are back in the cockpit very soon.

You would think that the food manufacturers would make something healthy so you could stay around for many years eating their stuff, but I think of the movie "Supersize Me" and know that if I ate McDonald's regular menu with much frequency, that I would be setting myself up for long term bad health.

It is a sad fact of our fast food society.

Before you go off the deep end here...read Dr Mercola's take on salt .http://www.mercola.com/2003/jul/26/sodium_recommendations.htm

'Test' do try and prove salt kills....results do lie.....you might as well say that having toes or fingers is fatal, because most dead people are found to have them !:rolleyes:

I used to have a bp of 280 / 160.
It was caused by the witch who at the time called herself my wife !:fork_off:
One year after the divorce and with 'normal' salt intake and NO MORE Zesteril pills.....my b/p is 125/75.

So there:thumbsup:




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Plantman: Mistress reads all her food labels since she tends to eat alot of frozen food since converting the kitchen into a shoe closet. Salt is a preservative and there is alot of it in prepared foods, good for you to take charge of your eating habits and try to change things.

Its amazing how much salt is in things. I'm not a big fan so I don't usualy add any salt to anything. But there is already a lot in most foods!:eek:

My currant bad habit is salty french fries, I add salt to nothing expect french fries.:D

my last two labs have shown sodium deficiency, i was told to lower my water intake to bring my sodium levels up. I don't watch my salt intake at all, i eat Mexican food like crazy and still come up with low sodium. i don't understand it.

Try not to eat any processed foods. Even raw chicken these days is injected with a "solution" like they say on the label.

You don't need much salt to make food taste good. Just a light even sprinkle before cooking will bring out the flavors in almost anything.

Don't ban me, but exercise does great things for blood pressure. It allows your body to rid itself of excessive sodium through sweat.

Don't forget the potassium as well. Studies have shown that potassium intake helps regulate the blood pressure.

I'm aware of my salt intake - there's a lot of it!