Shake off excess salt
Alvena Baxter, Special to the Gazette
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Alvena Baxter
Occupation: 14 years as food and nutrition teacher at Emporia High School
Alvena Baxter advises throwing out the salt.
Editor’s note: This is the second in a five-part series by Alvena Baxter, who will look at five basic nutritional problems in Americans’ diets including lack of calcium, lack of fiber, excess fats, sugar and salt. Baxter will examine these problems and offer easy ways to improve nutrition by modifying recipes. Her series will publish on the first Tuesday of every month.
By Alvena Baxter
Special to The Gazette
A common catch phrase we are hearing a lot these days is “shake the salt habit” — easy to say, much harder to do.
Table salt is made of two major components, chloride and sodium. Always check the ingredient labels and watch for the word “sodium” as well as “salt.” Several forms of sodium are used in the processing of our food and can cause health issues.
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