Things Doctors Didn’t Tell Me About Sodium

A few years back my mother suffered what doctors termed a “heart event.” Doctors prescribed a handful of medications and said the frightening words LOW SODIUM DIET. We live in the South and there isn’t much can say that scares a southerner more than “cut back on the salt.” The exact instructions were 1500 mg of sodium per day. That’s all, no educating us on what sodium does or how to figure out how much sodium she…