Get the Salt Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Salt Out of Any Diet - Softcover

Ann Louise Gittleman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0517886545 ISBN 13: 9780517886540

Publisher: Clarkson Potter, 1996

Synopsis

In this day and age, when fat is blamed for all our health problems, it's often easy to forget that salt can also be a dietary culprit. While salt is necessary for both bodily and cellular function, and is certainly crucial to the satisfying taste of some of our favorite foods, recent research shows that its excess consumption can also lead to hypertension, strokes, and a variety of cardiovascular problems.

In Get the Salt Out, nationally recognized nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman reveals 501 ways to avoid excess salt intake by serving a variety of delicious low-sodium foods, taking advantage of tasty salt substitutes and steering clear of many surprising hidden sources of salt. She provides more than fifty delicious recipes for low-sodium foods, which will add healthful new staples to the diet of anyone who wants to "get the salt out."

Other features include:
¸  Advice on how to use herbs effectively to reduce sodium intake
¸  Tips for reading labels to expose salt where it is hidden in ingredient lists, as well as other points of supermarket salt savvy
¸  Ways to reduce the salt level in your water
¸  Advice for avoiding salt when you eat out
¸  Tips for dealing with stress and other impediments you may face in your efforts to get the salt out
¸  A week-long menu plan
¸  A resource section

Get the Salt Out has all the tips, menu plans and recipes to help you enjoy real foods again and create meals that both your taste buds and your body can truly savor!

About this title

About the Author

ANN  LOUISE GITTLEMAN, M.S., C.N.S., is one of the foremost nutritionists in America. Prior to writing her first book, the national best-seller Beyond Pritikin, she was Nutritional Director at the Pritikin Longevity Center in Santa Monica, California. Since then, she has been a consultant to a number of prestigious medical institutions, clinics, and spas, and a popular guest on national television shows. Her other books include Get the Sugar Out, Super Nutrition for Women, Super Nutrition for Menopause, Super Nutrition for Men, and Your Body Knows Best

Reviews

Book title notwithstanding, Gittleman makes clear in her introduction that salt is a necessary part of the human diet. It's the kind of salt and the amount we take in that concerns her--whether it comes from your saltshaker or your bathwater. Organized topically, her 501 "tips" run the gamut from low-salt recipes and the nutritional scoop on transfats and MSG to lessons in label reading. Her brand-specific suggestions will make shopping easier. Cooks, however, will have a harder time, as recipes are scattered through the text, with most chapters containing one or two. Having pen and paper at hand should neatly solve the problem as well as be of value for taking notes on the wealth of concisely delivered information Gittleman provides. The organization may be problematic, but this is both enlightening and practical. Stephanie Zvirin

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarkson Potter
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0517886545
• ISBN 13: 9780517886540
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240