On Feb 1, 8:22*pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message

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"HK" wrote in message
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thunder wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:49:57 -0500, HK wrote:

Fast food typically is loaded with salt.

Fast food? *Damn near all food is loaded with salt. *If you are on a no
salt diet, you have to pay very close attention. *Things I never would
have expected have considerable salt content.

Yeah...it's everywhere. I'm not on a no-salt diet. I just consciously
avoid it where and when I can.

Damned hard to find a decent cereal not loaded up with sugar. I never
liked overly sweet sugary cereals.

Cheerios. *Either regular or Honey Nut. *Dry. *No milk.

Eisboch

Only thing I now salt are sliced tomatoes and hard boiled eggs. *We gave up
salt in 1973. *Another California drought and pregnant wife. *The local
water supply where we lived came out of the Sacramento river delta and the
salt had intruded up river. *Health warnings for cardiac people. *So we
stopped using salt in cooking. *Did use some last night as was pickling some
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Couple of weeks back I picked up a BP monitor with irregular heartbeat
sensor. I write down everything I eat since I got out and track fats
and salt, I can directly relate salt to Blood Pressure, it's so
defined, I never knew that...