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Healthy Living 30 Day Challenge Tip – Track Your Sodium Intake – Day 2

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Your Healthy Living 30 Day Challenge Tip for the Day

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Did you know that about one in three Americans has high blood pressure (or hypertension), and a high-sodium diet may be to blame.

The National Institutes of Health recommends you eat less than a teaspoon (2300 mg) of salt per day.

Yet sodium is included in so many packaged foods that unless you carefully read the labels of everything you eat, you may be ingesting much more sodium each day than you realize.

No wonder you may be at risk of high blood pressure.

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So, here's a healthy tip today for this month's Healthy Living 30 day Challenge.

Read the nutrition labels on everything you prepare today and see how much sodium you are eating.

And if you plan on eating out at a restaurant today, first visit the restaurant's website and take a look at the nutritional information for items on the menu to see how much sodium is in the foods you wish to order.

You might even want to track your sodium intake like this for the rest of the week, so you begin to get a feel for how much sodium you are consuming on a regular basis.

Here are some sites, apps, etc. that can give you more information and additional tips:

How to Track Your Sodium (from the American Heart Association)

Sodium Tracker (Apple Store)

5 Strategies for Managing Sodium in Your Diet

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  3. I actually do this on a regular basis. While I do not have an issue with it, my husband does and if I cut back too, maybe I won’t have any issues. I also made my 5k step goal with 5,564.

    • Hi, Sandra,

      Good for you for cutting back on sodium. I don’t think it’s too hard to do if you just don’t eat a lot of packaged/processed foods. But you also have to read labels. And, if you eat out, you should read the nutritional info. that most sites now have with their online menu.

      Suzanne

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