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Originally Posted by Plantman
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?
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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.