Patient was educated on foods to avoid while watching the sodium intake as follows:
- Avoid foods to which lot of sodium or salt have been added.
- Avoid foods such as, frozen dinners, instant noodles, and most canned products such as canned tomato soup, canned vegetable soup, and canned pasta sauces.
- Avoid snacks such as potato chips, salted crackers, salted almonds and cashews.
- Also, avoid cured meats and lunch meats to which high amount of salt is added.
- Try eating more of white meat and fish for protein and cut down on pork and pork products, such as, bacon, ham, hot dogs, sausage, and bologna, as these meats have high amount of salt in them.
- Avoid foods like bottled pickles and olives.
- Also, avoid foods containing sodium in other forms, such as Mono sodium glutamate (MSG in short).
