Question

Bil is a 45-year-old bachelor who eats arab and go breakfast, as of his lunches out, and has tak e n for dinner. Bis doctor concerned that his blood pressure is progressively rising with every office visit and has advised him to cut out the sell to lower his sodium intake. Bill rarely use salt from a sail shaker and is unsure what else he can do to lower his sodium intake Click the icon to see a typical day's Intake for Ba. • What foods did Bil eat yesterday that were high in sodium What foods were relatively low in sodium? What are better choices for him when eating out? How can he lower his sodum intake while still relying on something was when he prepares food at home? • Knowing that potassium may help but the effect of sodium intake on blood pressure, what foods would you recommend he add to his diet that would increase his potassium intake? • In overweight people, weight loss helps lower Noh blood pressure. Bit is a little heavy What changes substitutions could help him lose weight?

Answer 1

• Billi's food such as chinese food, tortilla chips, cold cut submarine with potato chips canned soup contains large amount of sodium as much as the body needs. Infact, US guidelines recommended 2-3gm sodium in a day. Sodium is found in natural food, but a lot added during processing and preparation. Canned, processed, fast and conveniences food have large amount of sodium.

Food relatively low sodium :

• Fresh vegetables such as green leafy, broccoli, cauliflower, pepper, asparagus
• Fruits such as apple, strawberry, grapefruit, shrimp and banana
• Prepare salad with vegetables or steamed vegetables or soup (soy soup, bean soup)lower the sodium. It can be cooked at home easily.

Potassium containing foods we recommend are the following :

• Fruits and vegetables are rich in pottadium.
• orange, banana, grapefruit, cantaloupe, apricot, cooked spinach, cooked broccoli, legumes (soy beans, lima beans, letils, potato, sweet potato, mushroom, pumpkin, green leafy etc

Measures to overcome

• Here Overweight is the result of consuming high calories such as otato chips, beverages here Bil is drinks cola. So include fruits and vegetables in the diet.
• Adequate intake of water is essential to burn fat
• Regular exercises such as aerobic, walking 30 mts/day, cycling etc
• Limit intake of high carbohydrates and sugar.
• Limit trans fat and saturated fat