What are the benefits of being on a low salt diet?

Answer 1

low salt diet means you must cut down on the amount of salt in the foods you eat. you can not add any salt to the foods you eat and avoid foods high in salt. the best way to do this is read labels on foods. unfortunately alot of our foods have added salt. salt preserves foods so any processed fooods like ham, Hot Dogs, jerky, bologna, etc have added salt. Of course potato chips, fritos, snack foods have alot of salt. olives have alot of salt. When you reading ingredients on food containers the ingredients are listed in order of the most amount to the least amount. so if salt is listed at the top or near the top of th list, the food has alot of salt. if listed last then the food has less salt. it would be wise to get a booklet or list of foods that identifies the amount of salt in common foods. then you can choose those foods you like. Fast food has alot of salt in most of the items. fresh foods like fruits and vegetables have very little or no salt. good luck with the diet.

Answer 2

Patients with Hypertension, High Blood Pressure are generally told to use a low SODIUM diet. This generally means Low Salt (NaCL, Sodium Chloride). So, you would avoid foods like Potato Chips, Salt Pork, added Salt on Foods.

Salt causes the body to retain Water, which will increase Blood Pressure.

Answer 3

Having a low salt diet can lower your blood pressure. Also, adapting a low salt diet means you will be avoiding most processed foods and instead replacing it with more fruits and vegetables which brings added benefits to your health.

Answer 4

A salt no added diet is a diet that may not contain salt in it or is associated with salt at all. It is pretty much how it sounds. Unless you take fairly small doses or sprinkles of it in your food.

Answer 5

High salt intake has been linked to hypertension and high blood pressure which affects one in three Americans and is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease. As such a low salt diet would help to lessen the severity of these symptoms.

Answer 6

to avoid hhigh blood pressure and hypertension

Answer 7

"Low Sodium" means that an item (such as a food or drink) contains little Sodium. In practical terms, it translates to "Low-salt."