8 Foods With More Salt Than Potato Chips

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8 Foods With More Salt Than Potato Chips You probably already know that a diet too high in salt can increase a person's risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and dying from other heart-related causes. But Americans continue to consume close to 3,300 mg of sodium daily -- about 1,000 mg more salt than recommended. Most adults shouldn't consume more than 2,300 mg of sodium a day. People who are 51 or older, African American or who have high blood pressure, diabetes or kidney disease should limit sodium intake to less than 1,500 mg daily. But that can be easier said than done, when you consider some of the sneaky places excess salt is lurking. Sure, you probably already know not to eat the whole bag of potato chips, and that processed meats are full of the stuff, but are you taking your breakfast into consideration? Take The Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Nutrition? Is Obesity More Prevalent Than We Thought? The State With The Longest Doctor's Office Wait Time Is... These Veggies May Boost Breast Cancer Survival BLOG POSTS Tsoknyi Rinpoche: Emotions: Real, But Not True When very strong emotions -- like fear, anger, or jealousy -- come up, it's very hard to resist giving up and giving into them. Lisa Firestone: Why The Spark Fades In A Relationship Reigniting our relationships can be as simple as carrying out those small, caring acts that make our partners feel acknowledged and loved for who they are. Taking steps each day to counter these habitual patterns leads us down a path that is much more fulfilling, much braver, and much more real. Susan Shapiro: How To Tell If It's A Habit Or An Addiction Indeed, you can get addicted to such "soft habits" as video games, texting, television, Facebook, sugar, exercise, shopping, sex or pornography. Often, the substance or activity is used to regulate moods and emotional states that would otherwise feel intolerable. Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.: Simple Tricks To Beat Food Cravings Everyone has cravings, but it is how we handle our cravings that will affect our health and/or our weight loss success. It is possible to manage your cravings in a healthy way. Read on to find out what your must-have-now urges mean and how you can control them.

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