How can you reduce your salt intake and fast food intake?

Answer 1

With Heart disease on the increase, it is more important now than ever to find ways to eat a more heart healthy diet. One way of achieving this is to cut back on salt consumption. This can be as easy as not adding salt before tasting food, or by using a salt substitute. A person can also buy pre-made products that have reduced or no salt. Another way to reduce salt in food is to flavor it with spices. Reducing salt intake can be easy, just by following these simple suggestions.

Answer 2

Maintaining a sodium intake below 2000 milligrams per day requires some effort. The following tips may help:

• Avoid eating in restaurants, because the majority of restaurant food is over-salted.
• Avoid all animal products, including meat, fish, poultry, milk, cheese, and eggs, which all contain sodium.
• Use more fresh fruit and vegetables, which are naturally low in sodium, and avoid adding salt during preparation. Processed foods and canned food usually contain more sodium.
• Don't use margarine.
• If you do eat packaged food, check food labels for the words salt or sodium. Any ingredient that has sodium, salt or soda as part of its name (monosodium glutamate (MSG), baking soda, and seasoned salt) contains sodium. Note that many high-sodium products, including ketchup, salad dressing, and corn chips, show relatively low sodium values based on very small serving portions. What is important is the amount of the product you actually consume, and the total amount of sodium you are eating each day.
• Do not use salt substitutes, especially those that contain potassium, without first talking to a medical professional.
• Remove the salt shaker from the table and season foods with herbs and spices rather than salt
• Plan meals that contain less sodium. Try new recipes that use less salt and sodium-containing ingredients and seasonings. Adjust your own recipes by reducing such ingredients a little at a time. Try 1/2 teaspoon when recipes call for 1 teaspoon.
• Make homemade condiments, dressings, and sauces that are low in sodium.
• Taste food before you salt it.
• Avoid salty foods such as pickles, olives, soy sauce, salted nuts, chips, and other snack foods.

The main dietary source of sodium is table salt, which is sodium chloride (NaCl). So, if your food is less salty, you will be eating less sodium.
Two of the best ways to control sodium intake is to 1) avoid salting your food, especially before tasting the food and; 2) reduce packaged and ready-to-eat foods. The fresher your food the lower the salt contact. Other ideas include reducing snack foods like popcorn and potato chips; reducing luncheon/deli meats -- these can be highly salted; reducing cheese & salted nuts intake; and limiting your use of Accent, MSG, and soy sauce. Reading labels helps you understand how much sodium you are putting in your body. The goal is to get no more than 2,300 mg of sodium per day.

Answer 3

don't eat salt or fast food