http://trailfire.com/InfoGeek/trails/39648InfoGeek/trails60http://trailfire.com/InfoGeek/marks/111097While sodium is essential for balanced health, excess of sodium can cause untold harm to people who suffer from certain diseases like high blood pressure and heart ailments. These diseases generally strike in the later years when one’s palate is used to certain amounts of salt in food. So reduction in salt levels becomes a painful process. Follow the tips given here for a healthy but low salt diet.]]>Reduced Sodium DietInfoGeekFri, 15 Jun 2007 01:51:30 -0700trailfire:markId:111097http://trailfire.com/InfoGeek/marks/111098Scroll down for information about ideal salt intake for normal persons and persons who are in a potentially risky group due to salt intake. Less salt consumption is a way of reducing high blood pressure. Control of high blood pressure automatically reduces your risk to other diseases like stroke, heart ailments and the like. Read the tips for eating low salt and adopt them for maximum benefit to your health.

]]>Reduced Sodium DietInfoGeekFri, 15 Jun 2007 01:57:13 -0700trailfire:markId:111098http://trailfire.com/InfoGeek/marks/111099Learn about all that salt does to make your food more flavorful and last longer. But do stop and analyze what that does for your health. Learn to read food labels to locate salt. It is there in most processed foods, even in stuff like cakes and sweet biscuits. So look before you eat.

]]>Reduced Sodium DietInfoGeekFri, 15 Jun 2007 02:00:51 -0700trailfire:markId:111099http://trailfire.com/InfoGeek/marks/111100If you like extra salt with your food, it’s probably not your fault. It is something to do with your birth weight. Fine, but then that is no reason to continue eating more salt when you know it can be harmful. Food preferences should be balanced in childhood itself when adapting to changes is easy.

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