Top 10 Tips for Reducing Sodium in Your Diet

3:57:9

2019-04-13

2007

When it comes to dietary sodium, less is certainly best, yet Americans today consume 50% more than the recommended daily quantities of sodium. Diets high in sodium increase blood pressure levels. High blood pressure damages the kidneys over time, and is a leading cause of kidney failure. To help Americans reduce salt intake to the ideal one teaspoon per day, the National Kidney Foundation offers 10 tips to reduce sodium in your diet. To help Americans reduce salt intake to the ideal one teaspoon per day, the National Kidney Foundation and Council of Renal Nutrition member Linda Ulrich offer 10 tips to reduce sodium in your diet.

Use fresh, rather than packaged, meats. Fresh cuts of beef, chicken or pork contain natural sodium, but the content is still much less than the hidden extra sodium added during processing in products like bacon or ham. If a food item keeps well in the fridge for days or weeks, that's a tip off that the sodium content is too high.
Choose fresh fruit and vegetables, as well, since they are very low in sodium. Canned and frozen fruits are also low in sodium.
When buying frozen vegetables, choose those that are labeled "fresh frozen" and do not contain added seasoning or sauces.
Begin reading food labels as a matter of course. Sodium content is always listed on the label. Sometimes the high sugar content in a product like apple pie can mask the high sodium content so it's important to check every label for sodium content.
Compare various brands of the same food item until you find the one that has the lowest sodium content, since this will vary from brand to brand.
Select spices or seasonings that do not list sodium on their labels, i.e. choose garlic powder over garlic salt.
Before dining out, do your research. Visit the restaurant's website which should list the sodium content of various dishes served there. Alternatively, when you're at the restaurant and ready to order, you can request that the dish be served without salt.
Beware of products that don't taste especially salty but still have high sodium content, such as cottage cheese.
If you have elevated blood pressure, dietary sodium restriction can not only lower your blood pressure, but can enhance your response to blood pressure medications.
Salt preference is an acquired taste that can be unlearned. It takes about 6-8 weeks to get used to eating food with much lower quantities of salt, but once it's done, it's actually difficult to eat foods like potato chips because they taste way too salty.

Nature

Scientists Raise Concerns Over Newly Recognized Pollutant Found Everywhere in the Air

2026-04-20

20x Difference: Study Reveals True Source of Airborne Microplastics

2026-04-15

Why Antarctic Sea Ice Suddenly Collapsed After Decades of Growth

2026-04-13

Climate Change Is Altering a Key Greenhouse Gas in a Way Scientists Did Not Expect

2026-04-09

Ancient Carbon Is Flooding Arctic Rivers as Permafrost Melts Faster

2026-04-07

Scientists Uncover Giant Lava Fields from an Active Underwater Volcano

2026-04-04

One of the Greatest Migrations on Earth Is Collapsing Beneath Our Rivers

2026-03-30

Scientists Discover Alaska Glaciers Are Melting Weeks Longer Than Expected

2026-03-28

Scientists Capture Sperm Whales Headbutting in Stunning New Footage

2026-03-23

Tropical Peatlands Are Burning Like Never Before in 2000 Years

2026-03-17

Get advices

The Shortest Road to Success

2026-04-14

The Bounteous Source of Streng ... read more

2026-03-29

Foresight

2026-03-24

Aligning Goals with Capacities

2026-03-18

1	Your Goals May Harm You If You Cannot Ac ... read more

2	You Always Have a Choice

3	Effectiveness of Training

4	How Do We Respond to Provocation?

5	Localization of Technology

6	Rationalizing Reactions

7	Why Do We Learn?

8	Take Responsibility for Your Choices

9	The Key to Success in Your Work and Life

SOCIETY AFFAIRS

Steadiness in Friendship

Lack of Will Power the Obstacle to Success ... read more

Vigilance in the Midst of Problems ... read more

The Scope of Human Possibilities ... read more

How to Not Be Tempted to Eat Junk Food ... read more

The Waves of Change Created by Outstanding Persona ... read more

Tenacity and Victory

Self-Suggestion

Secured Spiritual Well-Being by Means of Fruitful ... read more

Isolation and Unsociability

Family & Life

8:18:3 2026-04-21

Interpretation of Sura al-Nur - Verse 40

11:24:32 2026-04-18

Interpretation of Sura al-Nur - Verse 39

10:16:16 2026-04-14

Interpretation of Sura an-Nur - Verse 38

10:59:23 2026-04-12

Islamic Idelogies

The Shortest Road to Success

11:26:37 2026-04-18

False Advantages and Distinctions

11:1:47 2026-04-12

Honour, from the Islamic Viewpoint

11:37:51 2026-04-08

Refraining from Humiliation

10:17:9 2026-04-05

Holy Prophet

A Mathematical Approach to the Quran

10:52:33 2024-02-16

mediation

2:36:46 2023-06-04

what Allah hates the most

5:1:47 2023-06-01

allahs fort

11:41:7 2023-05-30

Prophet ‘s progeny

striving for success

2:35:47 2023-06-04

Imam Ali Describes the Holy Quran

5:0:38 2023-06-01

livelihood

11:40:13 2023-05-30

silence about wisdom

3:36:19 2023-05-29

Science and technology

A new chip-

Scientists Shrink a Lab Spectrometer to the Size o ... read more