Eat less processed food
The majority of the extra salt in your diet comes from processed foods and foods from restaurants. Typical high-salt foods include:
- Deli meats
- Canned soup
- Pizza
- Chips
- Other processed snacks
- ...
To make up for the loss of fat, "low fat" foods typically have high salt and sugar content. Food tastes better and makes you feel full when it is fat. You can eat less salt, sugar, and refined carbs by limiting your intake of processed foods, or even better, by completely eliminating them from your diet. Lower blood pressure can be the outcome of all of this. Make reading nutrition labels a practice. 5% or less of the salt listed on a product label is regarded as low by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), whereas 20% or more is regarded as high.
