If you’re like most people, you’re getting way too much sodium in your diet. The recommended intake of sodium is 2,400 milligrams per day. But the “Standard American Diet” provides an average of 4,000 - 5,000 mg of sodium per day.
Eating a high sodium diet can increase your risk of:
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Heart disease
- Fluid retention (edema)
- Kidney stones
While many people think the salt shaker is to blame, only about 11% of the sodium in the average U.S. diet comes from adding salt or other sodium-containing condiments to foods while cooking or eating. The majority comes from eating prepared or processed foods that contain sodium.
The solution is simple: base your diet around fresh, unprocessed foods and rely on antioxidant-rich herbs and spices for flavor. Healing Gourmet makes it easy for you to track the sodium on every recipe and even create your own Low Sodium Meal Plan.
Here are the specific criteria that make a recipe a “Low Sodium Recipes” at Healing Gourmet:
- LOW SODIUM – Contains less than 140 mg of sodium/serving
When you submit a recipe that meets these criteria, your creation will appear in Low Sodium Recipes, helping others enjoy delicious meals that are heavy on flavor, but light in sodium.
To learn more about a creating your own personalized low sodium diet, go here.