You Don’t Need Salt For A Flavorful Meal
Many people don’t worry about sodium in their diet unless their doctor has specifically told them to cut down on it. So they sit down to an otherwise healthy meal absent of high fat and calories and then spoil it by using an excessive amount of salt.
You may not be using that much salt on your everyday meals, but you may be actually exceeding the amount that the FDA suggests for sodium content. If you’re like most Americans, adding salt to a meal may be second nature, but this second nature could also mean you’re using three times as much salt as what’s needed.
This overdosing on salt leads to over 150,000 deaths each year, so it’s vital that you shake your sodium habit and learn to infuse flavor without risking your health. Here’s a quick start for you – how about spraying some lemon juice or sugar on your food instead of infusing it with salt? You can still enjoy the fresh flavor of your vegetables without shaking some sodium on it.
Another alternative is to use herbs to bring out the flavor and energize your food without salt – popular herbs include garlic, parsley, dill, and basil. While sodium is the flavor enhancer of choice for most households, many canned, processed, and even frozen foods are already full of this ingredient. In fact, a single fast food meal can supply more than twice your daily limit of sodium.
Three of the foods that are richest in unhealthy sodium are bacon, cheese, and soy sauce. Instead of using these ingredients, spice up your dish with ginger, rice vinegar, or lime juice.
Some foods mask their sodium content so that you don’t even know it’s in there. Some iced coffee drinks in Starbucks, for instance, can contain up to 300mg of sodium. There are other foods, like cookies, doughnuts, and bread that use baking soda – this means up to 1,300 mg of sodium per teaspoon used.
If you want to cook some vegetables and flavor them up, instead of reaching for the salt shaker, try roasting them in an effort to caramelize their natural sugars. By the time you get used to eating your vegetables this way, you’ll enjoy them so much you may even forget about your old salt-shaking routine.
Don’t waste another minute and start doing something about that excessive sodium in your diet. UTIs (urinary tract infections), blood pressure issues, and damaged arteries are just some of the after-effects of a sodium-rich diet. It can also bring an elevated risk of certain cancers and cause stomach disease, and osteoporosis. It may take a while to “get over” the lack of sodium in your diet, but move on and take the next step to enjoying the natural flavor of food and eliminating sodium from your eating habits.
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