Day Thirteen :Shake Your Salt Habit:- You know that your body needs salt—but did you know that it needs only a quarter teaspoon a day? There’s no doubt
Whatever that salt, a guest almost every kitchen table in America, can contribute to high blood pressure. Even moderate cutbacks in salt can help bring a persons’s blood pressure down to healthier levels.
But unfortunately, salt like fat,canbe hard to avoid because so much of it is invisible—tucked into processed foods,commercial baked goods and fast foods,Soft drinks can be notoriously high in the stuff: So even if you’ve virtuously replaced the salt in your shaker with an herbal mixture, you used in your homemade pasts recipe, the cheese you’re eating to boost calcium levels. A little vigilance is in order!
The other problem is that salt is a little bit”additictive,” If you try to go cold Turkey, foods may taste flavorless at first. There are several ways around this dilemma. One is a little creative herbcraft, which puts even better flavor into foods.
And the salt craving usually diminish overtime. Scientists at the University of California at Davis School of Medicine Illustrated it was so. They restricted the sodium intake of 43 people aged 25 to 49 .Another ground had no salt reduction. At the end of six months, both groups were served salted and unsalted soups, and were asked to mix the two until the soup reached the desired level of saltiness. The low
Sodium subjects reduced their salting level more than 5 0 percent, while other ground had virtually unchanged tastes.
A diet moderately low in sodium contains 2200 to 3,000 milligrams of sodium
Per day-the equivalent of about 1 to 1 ½ teaspoons. If your diet is heavy on the prepared and processed foods, and if you eat in restaurants – or friends’s house,
For that mater-it is quite likely you’re getting too much salt.
Use the Superfoods chart to estimate your sodium intake during at least two days you tracked the first week. If you find that the figure is high, it‘s time to take action! Continues……..
Thanks for Patience Reading
MR
