JESSICA GOLDMAN’S TOP 10 TIPS FOR LOW-SODIUM LIVING 1. Buy fresh, whole foods. Canned and packaged foods are very high in sodium. 2. Educate yourself. Learn not only to cook but also how restaurants prepare their food—a chef, for example, may blanch his good-choice spinach in heavily salted water, turning it into a bad-choice dish. [...]
Eating three balanced meals a day without snacks is no longer the norm—and definitely not the way most of us prefer to eat. So what about those snacks? Can indulging actually be healthier than forgoing them? “Absolutely,” says Elizabeth Somer, RD, author of a number of books on healthy living, including Eat Your Way to [...]
Who better to turn to than a renowned chef and a nutritionist for a wealth of options for eating to lower blood pressure? Gemma Heiser, MSc, provides the nutrition foundation and London chef and best-selling cookbook author Paul Gayler delivers the flavors in Healthy Eating for Lower Blood Pressure. Endorsed by the National Hypertension Association, [...]