Sodium is it Good or Bad?
Hi Loves,
Hope you are all doing amazing!
I just wanted to share some information about Sodium that I feel everyone should pay attention to. I know most of us don’t even look at the sodium content on the processed foods and we for sure don’t look at it on the fast foods at all unless your googling it before you go grab that fast foods it doesn’t say on it package thats for sure.
Did you know that that average American consumes 3,400mg of sodium a day even though the dietary guidelines is 2,300mg a day and even less if you have hypertension, diabetes or kidney disease it should be around 1,5000mg.
So that being said do you look at the back of the labels on your processed foods? You would be shocked if you started to really pay attention to looking at that. It is one of the first things I look at when I’m purchasing processed foods along with many other things before I will even purchase it.
So just some examples of sodium In your favorite processed foods let say you want that frozen pizza and its even organic in just three slices it can have up to 540mg of sodium and that can even be higher depending on what brand you get. What about that soy sauce you may freely pour all over your food for that extra flavor the Kikkoman brand soy sauce for example has 960mg of sodium in 1Tbsp that is insane I personally use the Coconut aminos for an alternative to soy sauce and for 1tsp its 90mg of sodium so you could use 2 tsp of the coconut aminos and it would be almost equal to 1Tbsp which would be 180mg compared to the other brand at 960mg in one Tbsp .This is just a few examples of some staple foods. Eating fast food is a whole other situation of extremely high sodium foods that you should also be aware about!
So the next time you’re at the grocery store turn that package around and take a look at the sodium content your mind will be blown.
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Until next time Be Well