Salt: Questions for Your Doctor
If you need to limit the amount of salt in your diet, see a doctor or dietitian to help you evaluate your current diet and target how
much salt you should have in your diet. Here are some questions to consider
asking:
- How can eating less salt help me?
- Isn't salt found in all
foods?
- Do I need a minimum amount of salt?
- Can you
tell me some foods to avoid because of high salt content?
- If I
like these foods, what can I substitute?
- How can I count salt
content in my foods?
- What's the difference between salt and sodium?
Aren't they the same?
- How can food labels and ingredient lists help
me cut back on salt?
- How can I cook using less
salt?
- What if others in my family don't want to lower the salt
in our diet?
Credits
| By | Healthwise Staff |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | Rhonda O'Brien, MS, RD, CDE - Certified Diabetes Educator |
| Last Revised | July 12, 2012 |