Click to enlargeSodium and Your Health

Too much sodium and your health

Excess sodium in the diet is linked to many health concerns. Doctors often recommend a low or no sodium diet to their patients with the health conditions listed below. Click on the headline to read the articles.

Visit our salt free cooking tips page for ideas to make low salt or salt free cooking and eating easier and more enjoyable. Visit our sodium content of foods page for a list of many common foods and their sodium content per serving.







Reduce High Blood Pressure
Reduce High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure is a blood pressure reading of 140/90 mmHg or higher...

Menieres Disease
Menieres Disease

A low sodium diet and a diuretic medication that helps control water retention may reduce the frequency of attacks...

Asthma
Asthma

Asthma is a chronic disease that affects your airways, which are the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs...

Heart Failure
Heart Failure

Heart failure is a condition where the heart cannot pump enough blood throughout the body...

Healthy Heart Diet Tips
Healthy Heart Diet Tips

Heart disease. It's the number one cause of death in the United States. You can lower your chances of getting heart disease...

Diabetes
Diabetes

Diabetes means that your blood glucose (often called blood sugar) is too high...

Potassium and Sodium
Potassium and Sodium

Another dietary measure to lower blood pressure is to consume a diet rich in potassium...

Salt
Salt

Now that you're not eating salt, here are some things you can do with the leftover salt canister in your panty...

Sodium Additives
Sodium Additives

When foods are processed, salt and other sodium ingredients are added...

It's Not Just High Blood Pressure
It's Not Just High Blood Pressure

Salt may cause health problems not necessarily related to high blood pressure...



Cirrhosis of the Liver and Sodium
Cirrhosis of the Liver and Sodium

Diet for Liver Disease
Diet for Liver Disease