Hot Sauce for Heart Health: Fire Up the Flavour, Watch the Salt
If you’re trying to limit sodium after a heart event or for any other reason, you might have a hard time finding things that taste…
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7 Summer Salt Swaps for a Healthy Heart
(Say That Ten Times Fast!) Over the years, many clients have told me that summer is a tough time to keep sodium in check. Road…
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Lower Your Blood Pressure with DASH – What You Need to Know
Yet again this year US News & World Report named the DASH eating pattern one of the best overall diets in its annual ranking. DASH,…
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How Caffeine and Alcohol Affect Your Blood Pressure
Ask someone what they can do to address high blood pressure (aka hypertension), and the first answer is nearly always something like “cut back on…
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Approaches for Addressing High Blood Pressure
How much can our health behaviours affect blood pressure? Everyone responds differently, but this chart gives averages from clinical studies for people who have high…
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Watching Your Sodium? 5 Surprising Ways to Boost Flavour
Did you ever notice that people think about salt, sugar, and other demonized foods in all or nothing terms? They’re either good or bad, in…
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New Blood Pressure Guidelines – What You May Not Hear From Your Doctor
I’m not suggesting that there’s a sinister conspiracy to hide anything. Not at all. It’s just that doctors often have more problems to sort out…
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Sodium: Do You Really Need to Worry About It?
Note from Cheryl: Thanks to media coverage of questions about the health effects of sodium, I’m running into more and more people who think it doesn’t…
