I can never go out to eat again! That is the number one complaint I hear from people when they are first told they must adhere to a low sodium lifestyle. In fact, during one of my hospital stays (I had many in my journey to a heart transplant), my room mate, a 50 year […]
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How To Read Nutrition Labels In my Low Sodium journey. One of the first things I discovered that I was terribly illiterate when it came to reading labels on packaged foods. I knew about looking at fat grams and calories, but pretty much glazed over any other info. Now days the first thing I do
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When I was first told to begin the Low Sodium regimen, I was a bit overwhelmed. What were the rules? What could I eat? How could I prepare the food? I had some experience cooking, but really needed to get up to speed on some real life skills and understanding to empower myself to adopt
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Why I Went Low Sodium When I was first diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in 2002, I was told that I had maybe 5 years left to live. It wasn’t an acceptable answer. I was newly married (In 2000), we had just moved into our first home (2001) and we were expecting our first child four months
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