A Tasty Fix For Too Much Salt in Your Blood Pressure Diet
The first high blood pressure medicine that is BPS 5 Reviewnormally prescribed by a doctor for stage 1 hypertension is a diuretic. The reason for that is to flush excess fluids from your body, specifically from the volume of blood in your blood vessels, and to flush out sodium as well. Sodium, or salt, is a major culprit in the development of high blood pressure and it's a part of our Western diets that's killing us.
Salt is essential for good health. But for sodium to do its job, we only need to consume about 500 milligrams a day. Would it surprise you to learn that a single appetizer at a major chain restaurant has over 3,000 milligrams of sodium? And that's just the start. The FDA says our daily allowance for salt should be 2,400 milligrams (but we only need 500?) and the real challenge is to stay at that level or lower.
Table use and use in cooking amounts to about 12% of our total salt intake. What if you could knock that down to zero by substituting non-salt ingredients? Well not only would you be doing your high blood pressure a favor, your taste buds will start jumping for joy as well.
Salt is an acquired taste. That means we can unacquire it and learn to enjoy something else. Spicing up food can be a great way to cut sodium and add a little adventure to your meals.