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How to Choose Low Sodium Foods

If you are suffering from edema or bloating, or if your weight loss plan doesn’t seem to be working thanks to water retention, you should consider changing to low sodium foods. The best diet plan is one that not only helps you to shed pounds, but also educates you about wise food choices and helps you to improve your health.

Since hypertension is on the rise and more and more people are choosing processed foods (such as the Twinkies diet) over whole, natural foods, a switch to a lower sodium diet can only improve your health and your waistline. Here’s how to incorporate low salt foods into your diet.

Learn How to Read Labels

Your education begins with learning how to read food labels. For this purpose, let’s lay aside the question of are calories good or bad and focus solely on the sodium content of foods. When looking at a nutritional label, you should pay attention to two items: the serving size and the milligrams of sodium the food contains. Ignore the percentage of daily value estimate, as this does not apply to a low sodium diet.

According to the National Labeling and Education Act, a food can be labeled “low sodium” if it contains 140mg of sodium or less per serving. A food can be classified as “no sodium” if it contains less than 5mg of sodium per serving. Experts agree that a low sodium diet means keeping your intake to 2 grams or less per day. Since the average teaspoon of table salt contains nearly 2,300mg of salt, you can understand how important it is to become vigilant about your sodium intake. Reading labels is your first step.

Low Sodium Dining at Home

At home, you have a great deal of control over how much sodium is put in your food. You can greatly reduce your reliance on salt as a seasoning by learning to season your food with fresh herbs. Rather than buying salted butter, opt for organic unsalted butter. You should also banish processed foods and salty snacks from your pantry.

If you keep all-natural organic cuts of meat on hand, as well as fresh vegetables and fruit, then you are halfway to a low sodium diet as these foods are naturally low in salt. By preparing these foods in a manner that doesn’t add much salt, you can enjoy a flavorful and delicious eating plan.

Low Sodium Dining in Restaurants
Low sodium eating is harder to accomplish in restaurants simply because you don’t know everything that goes into your meal. If you don’t want to prepare every meal at home, you will need to become very picky about how you order your dinner at a restaurant. You should steer clear of foods that are obviously high in salt, such as processed grains, cheese, condiments, and pickled foods.

Try ordering a grilled chicken breast without a marinade, rub, or sauce and ask them to hold the seasonings. Ask for a side order or two of steamed vegetables, without salt or butter. That should give you a low sodium option that won’t throw you too far off track with your new diet plan.

Naturally Low Sodium Foods

As mentioned above, some foods are naturally low in sodium. Unprocessed meats (not bacon or sausage, which are high in salt), fresh vegetables, and fruits are all low salt foods. Anything that contains a sauce or seasoning has the potential to be a high sodium food, so try to steer clear of, say, the frozen veggie blends that come with a butter or cheese sauce. If you want to enjoy the occasional serving of popcorn, use an air-popper and don’t salt it.

By eating a diet rich in fiber and unprocessed foods, you can embrace a low sodium lifestyle with ease.

Eating Disorder and need help recovering??!! Easy POINTS!!!?

so i am border line anorexic and have been trying to eat about 1500 calories per day, but when i try i end up eating a TON of junk and it makes me crave gross stuff. I haven’t lost anymore weight(84lbs and 5ft 1in… 14 years old) but i feel bloated and fat all the time and my face is getting kinda rounded again..:(

Whoa, exactly like me!
- I’m 13 , 5’2 and I used to weigh 90lbs..
I now am an outpatient at Northyork Eating Disorders Hospital and can relate to you tremendously!
You’re very underweight as i’m sure you have heard and it’s important to get help. Have you seen a doctor yet? Has he reccomended you to a ‘eating disoders clinic/ hospital?’
It’s good/ helpful if he has – since the clinic/ hospital will provide you with a treatment team to concere you’re eating disorder.
The treatment team included usually involves; a dietition, peditriton, doctor, phygolist, therapist, and etc…

They will help you gain the weight healthly and put you back on the right track of a healthy life-style.
First- you should be consuming atleast 2200-2400 calaries a day for weight-gain eating only 1500 will get you no-where. I know it’s hard, and you’ll feel bloated for the first little bit, but you’ll pull through, and it will die down, and circulate all over you’re body where it need’s to be placed.

Trust me you may think you’re getting fat, but it’s the eating disorder.. you’re gonna start to look more healthy when you’ gain and it won’t even be noticable at first.
It’s good to eat healthy foods for healthy sucessful weight gain.
But avoid all low-calarie/ fat-free / low-fat foods.

Make sure you’re getting all of you’re suggested food groups dailey and the right ammount of servings.
- Whole grains/ complex carbs- brown bread/ pasta
- Whole Dairy/ high calcuim (make sure you’re soy is fortafyed and- all soy is low in fat, so instead of fat-free get the original it’s still low-in fat.)
- All colored Fruits- red, orange, green, yellow, etc…
- All colored vegtables- leafy greens, orange, purple, yellow, etc..
- Lean meats/ proteins- Great of muscle gain instead of fat.
- Healthy fats and oils – becel/ margerine, oils, nuts…

You should be getting atleast 1/4-1/3 more of the serving then the normal person – look in the canadian foodguide on the internet for suggested servings for ‘healthy weight gain’.

I would suggest the best foods would be complex carbs- pasta since it puts on weight nicley. And banana’s – the’re the highest calarie fruit.
Also instead of drinking water all the time replace it for juice, and at dinner have a cup of milk.

If you’re having trouble with eating all this like I did, I would reccomend buying a shake called ‘Ensure’ it’s for maintaining/ weight gain. Have 2-3 a day ontop of what you were’ having and this should do the same thing. It’s great to the’re fairly small ( 200mL- less than a cup) And taste great! They also don’t make you bloat and are easy to digest since they are liquid.
These can be found throughout the US, Australlia, and Canada at you’re nearest drug/ health/ nutriton store for $12.99 CA of a package of 8. They come in great flavours like:
- Creamy Chocolate
- Homemade Vanilla – My favourite!
- Strawberries and Cream
- Wild berrie
- Butter Pecan
- Banana
- Eggnog
- Orange Creme
- Coffee Latte Mocha,
- And more…

For more information on this product visit the website i’v provided for you in ‘source’.
Remeber if you’re going to take this route of continuing on eating 1500 calaries a day have 2-3 enures daily (either regular ensure, or plus ( 2 plus, or 3 regular, as snacks )

Best of Luck!
And Happy Holidays

- E-mail me at dizturbiah@yahoo.com to talk if you need any help like a pen-pal to get through this since I am currently going through the same thing.

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