Watching Your Salt Intake

It wasn't until someone very close to me encountered heart failure that I really started to understand about the foods we eat and salt intake. However, after reading the medical reports and the doctors recommendations with regards to salt intake. I came to understand that we daily take in a whole lot of salt and many times without even knowing it.

You see for a person dealing with heart failure, 2000 mg of salt each day is the limit. Anything past that and it can have drastic affects.

Now for the reality check. Check your daily salt intake for breakfast, lunch, dinner and all the snacks that you eat and you will be shocked. The average fast food meal runs 1,200 to 1,500 mg of salt per meal. The average restaurant meal runs about the same and sometimes higher. The average morning, lunch and dinner can run upwards of 3,500 to 4,000 mg of salt for home cooked meals.

You might be saying I don't have heart problems. That may be true, however go read about the affects of salt on our heart and health.

This page is very informative which shares, Nutrition And Diet and the following page shares lots of information about Lower Salt Intake. Check out the following page at Salt And Heart Disease for further information. Remember, being educated about these matters will help us all to live healthy lives.

Health, Family And Food

There's no doubt that the foods that we eat play an important part of a families health. Many times we have this rush rush lifestyle that makes fast foods and microwaves almost a daily part of our life. That's not healthy.

Make a quality decision to eat healthy. Take the time to make time to prepare a healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner and stay away from those foods that in time will catch up with us.

Living a healthy life requires eating healthy which requires disapline.