What is my favorite food? I don’t have just one so my top three culinary enjoyments are Mexican, Sushi and Chinese. In all transparency, I do not eat the way I used to. I have been watching my sodium intake diligently since 2006, but recently I was diagnosed with high blood pressure. I do not drink alcohol, smoke and rarely eat out, so this startling revelation was disturbing. After doing extensive research on the subject, I discovered that according to a 2014 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, salt intake is at an all-time high, with Americans consuming around 3,300 milligrams of sodium a day, over double what is the recommended daily allotment. For the last three months I have read so many nutritional labels on products at the grocery store and the rarely produced nutritional menus at restaurants (if they even have them – many don’t!) and am shocked what I have discovered. Salt is being dumped into food by the gallons. It is a ticking time bomb. I encoura
