Low sodium diet

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akuswara2014
akuswara2014 Posts: 2 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Hi my doctor told me to get into a low sodium (low salt) diet due to hypertension. How low is low sodium diet? Is there any pre-set food profile that can adjust my daily target accordingly?

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  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    edited May 2016
    Dash Diet
    http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/dash-diet/art-20048456
    Recipes for dash diet
    http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/recipes/dash-diet-recipes/rcs-20077146
    Your library will also have books and recipe books.
    Usually a low sodium diet limits to 1,500 sodium daily.
    You will likely have to give up fast food and many processed foods and start cooking.
    No pre-set profile available. All you can do is track sodium here.
    It was eye opening for me to see a slice of pizza at 900 mg of sodium.
  • STechert
    STechert Posts: 1 Member
    I looked up Dairy Queen shrimp basket......3630mg of sodium. Makes my Aldi shrimp of 400 seem like nothing!
  • positivepowers
    positivepowers Posts: 902 Member
    Usually salt is limited to 2 GM (2,000 mg) of sodium/day total. Much lower than that and you can become hyponatremic.
  • akuswara2014
    akuswara2014 Posts: 2 Member
    Thanks for the information, I'll custom set the daily target in the app then. Is there any difference in the heart rate zone (during exercise) for people with hypertension? Or the tension has nothing to do with the heart rate?
  • positivepowers
    positivepowers Posts: 902 Member
    edited May 2016
    I wish I could give you a simple answer to this but I can't. The answer is: it depends. Hypertension can be liked to heart rate if it's linked to heart disease or arrhythmia of some sort. If the hypertension is essential hypertension, meaning there is no known cause, then the heart rate and blood pressure could be linked but possibly not.

    Until the hypertension is under control, exercise should be gentle (walking, swimming, etc.) and done only under the supervision of your physician! I can't stress that point enough. Hypertension can cause irreversible damage from disease such as stroke, heart attack, aneurysm and early onset dementia.
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