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Cub Driver wrote:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:31:00 -0500, Dave Butler wrote:
Everything has sodium

Well, there's always Bite Sized Shredded Wheat. Of course, you'll have
to eat it without milk ...

It's important to remembe than when it comes to BP that sodium control
is not as important as people think. Of people that have high BP only 25%
respond to a low salt diet, that is the majority of with people high BP
(75%) salt intake as no (serious) affect on thier BP. And it has never
been shown that people that do not have high blood pressure will develop
it on a high salt diet.
However, salt those affect your kidneys and how much 'fluid' you carry
around in your body. Many people that have high BP also have other
medical conditions that make having lots of fluid less than ideal.
THe point I wanted to make was that you should cehck to see IF your
have high BP IS you respond to salt. If you (like most) do not then it's
ok to eat salty foods. However, edema (swelling, normaly of the feet and
hands) can occur if your high BP is due to certain causes or you have
other medical issues that often are seen at the same time as HTN (eg. CHF,
past MI, CAD, renal problems, etc.).