High blood pressure is a result from to much sodium in our bodies. This is caused from the sodium content in our diets. Now this can derive from salting the foods while we are cooking and the set down to eat it. This can be from the salt added to prefixed foods such as TV dinners, premade Mac-n- cheese, canned meats, vegetables, fruits, and soups. Sodium is inserted in these to make the shelf life longer. However; it is not good for us.

Did you know that if you were to cook oats, wheat or barley according to the directs your salt intake for just that one item would be 252 mg of sodium. These items can be cooked without the salt and also help reduce your cholesterol.

Children’s cold cereals contain up to 290 mg of sodium. If you were to feed these kids oats or shredded wheat they would only get 6 mg of sodium.

Fresh fruits carry 1mg of sodium, while canned fruits in syrup have 15 mg of sodium in them.

Fresh vegetables have about 30mg of sodium while canned or frozen in sauces have about 300 mg of sodium.

So you can see that we are eating a lot of salt. One reason I think that we have fell into this type of diet is convenience. Nobody seems to cook anymore, and for 65% of us it will kill us.

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