Hacking Salt on NBC KARE 11 to talk Low Sodium Diets I believe in paying it forward. I was blessed with a heart transplant, and one of the ways I can pay it back is to spread awareness for heart disease, organ donation, and low sodium. That is why I went as Hacking Salt on […]
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Talking Low Sodium on the Social Media Boombox Podcast Today we are talking low sodium on the Social Media Boombox Podcast. There is an organization I have been proud to be involved with almost since it’s inception, the Social Media Breakfast – Minneapolis St. Paul Chapter. It is the longest continually running gathering of social
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I’ll start right off letting you know that this is NOT a paid ad or endorsement, but it is a rocking product that I found and use to monitor my daily hydration. When you have a heart problem, hydration issues come in two categories. The first is that fluid intakes may be restricted if your
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I can never go out to eat again! That is the number one complaint I hear from people when they are first told they must adhere to a low sodium lifestyle. In fact, during one of my hospital stays (I had many in my journey to a heart transplant), my room mate, a 50 year
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How To Read Nutrition Labels In my Low Sodium journey. One of the first things I discovered that I was terribly illiterate when it came to reading labels on packaged foods. I knew about looking at fat grams and calories, but pretty much glazed over any other info. Now days the first thing I do
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Why I Went Low Sodium When I was first diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in 2002, I was told that I had maybe 5 years left to live. It wasn’t an acceptable answer. I was newly married (In 2000), we had just moved into our first home (2001) and we were expecting our first child four months
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What if your heart was too big? What if your heart was too big? I have been called “big-hearted” many times through my life. Up until 2002 I took it as a compliment…a good thing. Then I caught a virus while travelling for business and wound up with an infection that settled into the enzymes
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