Too Much Salt? Try Holding the Bread

As A kid I would suck on rock salt while making home made ice cream, my oranges, apples,watermelon,and of course hand picked tomatoes I would salt them as I ate them. I'm thankful that my grand kids know how harmful sugar and salt are for you. Like cigarettes and alcohol. Too much of anything is hard on you. I just wish some one would tell them fast foods 10 or 11 times a week is no good for them either.

As a person with very high BP, I can tell you it's tough to find food out there w/o large amounts of salt. Pretty much everything is just loaded up with it. The government/health care people want you to eat healthy stuff, but then they price it out of all reason, so the average person can't afford it, and then they wonder why obesity and other problems exist. Lower the prices on the good stuff, cut out the salt and sugar in most things and watch those numbers change. It's a case of monitoring yourself, certainly, but it sure would help if better choices were more affordable! Seems like simple math to me!

Next thing you know, someone will want to pass a law limiting the consumption of bread.

If you really want to change your salt, look at how much sodium is on any package. I got a real eye opener when a client had to have a 2000 gram salt diet. Look at all of your canned foods........... A single serving of soup has about 870 grams of salt. So basically anything canned is too much salt.
Fresh foods are the best. stay away from processed lunch meats, hot dogs etc and you will reduce greatly

Make your own bread and soup. Cook your own real food. Then you know what is in it. It's amazing how many chemicals, that the food industry puts into our food. It' not just salt.

Cold cereals also contain plenty of sodium.

Even supposed healthy cereals like Cheerios are loaded with salt. One serving of Cheerios gives you 10% of your daily allowance.

The actual amount is probably much higher because: 1)how many people actual pour a bowl of cereal that is the indicated serving size (3/4 cup) and 2)nutritional info is an average laboratory result like tar/nicotine in cigarettes. The amount could be (and most likely is) much higher than the average lab analysis results used for marketing purposes.

Even Quaker Oats (the packets) contain 10% or more of your daily salt because they add it to the ingredients. I’ve never made oatmeal with salt and I still don’t understand why adding salt is included with the directions--except maybe to make the water boil faster.

Salt does more than just flavor bread, it also regulates how fast the yeast does it thing, cut salt in half next time you bake bread, the texture will be different.

It is NOT bread that has all that salt, it's our society and fast food nation. A can of soup can have 1000 gr of sodium, a TV dinner can have up to 2,000 gr., a microwave lunch can have up to 1500 gr. THAT'S what's wrong, salt wise, the fast food we buy because there's no time to cook anymore! Good grief, we even buy salads all ready made at the grocery store because of time restraints! We're busy taking kids to soccer, little league, dance class or whatever, we go to meetings, etc., cooking is NOT a priority for the lower and middle classes...there is NO time! If both parents work (which most do) some also have second jobs too, just where are they supposed to get this time for cooking and cooking healthy?

I have lost 50 lbs over the last year buy cutting out sugar, you just don't realize how much sugar is in EVERYTHING, now I am working on cutting sodium, read the labels, know what you are eating, don't eat out more than once a week. Vote with your wallet and the corporations will get it eventually. Even the so called lean cuisines and healthy alternatives are full of junk. WE are killing ourselves in record numbers. This from someone who historically has hated eating vegetables. Change is tough some times but change we must. When I go out to eat I tell them to hold the salt.

Here we go again. Bread is the enemy this week, what will it be next week? Moderation is the key. Common sense is the answer. Use your head.

My father lived to 102. He smoked 1/2 pack of cigarettes daily, ate nothing but junk food, never had a salad in his life, and drank gin and vodka like it was going out of style. Good genetics I guess.

I agree that it's hard to find commercially prepared foods and restaurant meals that are not drenched in salt. Americans' tastes have become so used to excessive salt (and sugar too) that we don't know what food is really supposed to taste like any more. I've gradually been switching to fresher foods, such as fresh or frozen veggies instead of canned and peanut butter that's just ground peanuts. It's really not hard to make my own soups using homemade or low sodium broth, cook old fashioned oats for breakfast, drink milk and water instead of soda, and cook chicken breasts for sandwiches instead of cold cuts. I figure I've eliminated about half the sodium in my diet just by making about 5 or 6 changes. Added bonus -- I've lost 13 lbs. and my blood pressure is in the excellent range now.

I bake my own tasty bread and rolls with no additives and minimal salt. Yes it is work but the result far out-weighs the time involved. The meals I prepare are superior to any restaurant. Folks need to learn the skills at home, I did.

This must be the only country on the planet that on daily basis worries on what to eat and not to eat. We are always on a some sort of diet and yet many people in this country are overweight. We are lazy and sit all day at our jobs, drive down the street and dont want to regulary walk instead but instead we drive. Our air is polluted and so is our water. There is high fructose corn syrup in everything we eat and drink and we feed our kids fast food on regular basis instead of fish, fruits and vegetable. Our meats are full of hormones and our fruits and vegetables are full of pestisides. We are a nation that has a daily grind, get up, face traffic, get to work, sit all day and drive back home while seating in traffic for two hours and then at home, eat big heavy dinners, sit in front of the tv rest of the night and ready for the same thing the next day. Weekends are the only time we try to enjoy ourlives. We go on vacations when we are old and retired but have to carry along our medications to be able to get around. We own big houses, drive 2 to 3 cars and work long hours to pay for them. WE, IN THIS COUNTRY, DO NOT KNOW HOW TO ENJOY LIFE ON DAILY BASIS. LIfe will pass you by if you don't stop and realize how depressing and toxic this type of lifestyle can be. HIGH STRESS ALL THE WAY EVERYDAY. Just saying.

You can't buy processed foods and get low salt. Even the reduced sodium is to high in salt. You have to make your own foods or just fresh foods. Same with high fructose corn syrup.

Oh my gosh- this just can't be totally true! Really- when I make bread, there is not a lot of salt in the entire 2lb loaf! It's other things people eat to excess. For heaven's sake- it reminds me of when you see someone overweight who supersizes their fast food meal, but quench their conscience, they order a diet soda! Eat your whole grain breads, people- skip the junk foods.

All this "eat this and not that" is plain nonsense. This simply skirts (I think purposely) some fundamental issues which affect all of us:
1. Food adulterated with chemicals and flavour enhancers.
2. Meats and poultry injected with "natural" juices.
3. Accurate - not misleading - food labels.
4. Labels which indicate if a food contains GMO materials.

This list could be even longer. I have learned this ... if it's made by Kraft, Unilever, Nestle or one of their subsidiaries it's probably not a good thing to eat. If there is an industry council (read lobby) involved, beware! Read the label on the box! Granted, it does not tell the entire story but you will be surprised by what you will no longer purchase. Demand that the responsible government agencies (FDA in the US) require truth in labeling and not cave in to industry fiction. As to bread, go to a real baker! Mass market bread contains too much sugar and salt; real bread tastes like grain and yeast not sugar.

"...but people tend to eat a lot of them." Doesn't this sum up the entire article?? Why not just stop eating "a lot of them" instead of eating none at all? And that's the secret of maintaining the right weight: DON'T EAT A LOT OF ANYTHING!

This article is crap. 7% of 3300 mg is less than 250 mg per day. The reason bread came out on top is NOT that people eat a lot of bread, but that a lot of people eat bread.

You can't find a prepared soup that has less than about 400 mg of salt per serving, and that is the low salt versions. Most canned soups have about 700 to 800 mg of salt per serving. Yet bread is "followed by cold cuts, pizza, poultry, soups and sandwiches." So I know that soup has WAY more sodium than bread, but the article/study makes it sound like soups are better than bread.

And SANDWICHES? Don't sandwiches have bread? So if I take bread, and I add cold cuts (also worse than sandwiches) and maybe cheese (close behind), am I going to REDUCE my sodium intake? Ummm ... no.

I bake bread twice a week and each loaf has 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt. Spread through a 2 lb loaf, that is not a lot.