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Salty Facts – Heart Failure and Sodium
Dietary sodium restriction is one of the most common self-care behaviors suggested to patients with heart failure. Although putting less salt on foods is a step in the right direction, it isn’t enough. There is so much hidden salt in foods that people aren't aware of – more than 75 percent of sodium Americans consume is estimated to come from processed foods – not the salt shaker. In this video, Mayo Clinic cardiologist, Dr. Farris Timimi discusses ways patients with heart failure can more effectively control their sodium intake.
How do you monitor how much sodium you're consuming? Reducing your salt-intake can feel like a balancing act – what challenges do you face while trying to regulate sodium?
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They have a new farm raised salmon out of Antarctica. Haven’y tried it because I feel the same way about farmed fish. The company is Sixty South.
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2 ReactionsMy take away from the DataNutition website was salmon is salmon no matter how it is raised. The nutritionist supported that idea. I eat at a Chinese buffet that has wonderful salmon. It is moist and very tender. I imagine it is steamed if that is a cooking method.
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1 Reaction@bjanderson When you are in the store though, unfortunately you generally do not know where the farmed salmon came from. Whole Foods claims that their farmed salmon is as good as wild but of course they say that, they want you to buy it!
@plaid I just googled farmed salmon vs wild salmon and it does still sound as if farmed salmon cannot compare in health benefits with wild. Most farmed salmon is still good for you, just not as good as wild, and some farmed salmon has more contaminants in it.
I will stick to wild, it tastes better to me anyway, which is not to say I have never eaten farmed in a restaurant and enjoyed it.
JK
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2 ReactionsI think that a lot of our food choices depend on what is available to us where we live, as well as the cost. Another factor that I consider, when eating out, is whether I am comfortable with the eating establishment. It sounds like you have found a satisfactory restaurant! Even restaurants are limited by where we live -ie availablity of good local eateries vs chains and fast food places.
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2 ReactionsThe farmed salmon available in Rochester, MN has red food coloring added to it. I prefer wild salmon. Canned wild salmon from Alaska is an excellent product.
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3 ReactionsIn Os that's what farm salmon is red food coloring in it I use wild caught from Alaska
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1 Reaction@bob270 Well Bob if you don't mind the red food dye in your salmon go for it but I prefer no dye in my salmon my son is allergic to all dyes red is worst so that's my story about salmon ,sticking to it
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1 Reaction@contentandwell, @bob270, @plaid- Living in the Pacific NW I have always believed that eating Wild salmon from the rivers & ocean here was the only way to go and I have read some negative reports about Farm raised salmon. Not sure you have ant Costco's near where you live, but recently I had noticed they they sold farmed salmon and in their magazine there was a great article recently on the company they purchased the farm raised salmon through and that really changed my mind at least about their product. You might try looking into it, I was very impressed! Jim @thankful
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1 ReactionI have lived in the PacNW (Spokane, Yakima and Renton) and know some of what you speak. A drought condition on the mighty Columbia occurred in 1977 or so. The water rights table from 200 years ago lists an Indian tribe near Portland as first served. They have a salmon business and require a certain minimum flow to guarantee spawning. The hop farmers around Yakima had trouble. Brewmeisters from around the world met in Yakima (60,000 at the time).