my new avatar UPDATE

[waaytoomuchintothis]

It looks like the double dose of Lasix has worked well. I'm less weak after a few days (I slept 14 hours the first night after the Dr visit), and I'm getting taste back in my tongue. Food sure tastes better. Now if my right upper lip would cooperate...

[HomeRacingWorld]

Good news. Really good.

[TsgtRet]

As a fellow "low sodium/low fat" troop, I feel your discomfort. I'm becoming used to reading a label before I put anything in my shopping cart. Life sentence, indeed ;)

[Ember]

My mother is in the opposite camp. She can't keep her sodium levels high enough and is on salt tablets. Had a really scary episode last year when she took a bit of a vacation from reality due to dangerously low sodium levels.

[Florida_Slotter]

Actually to be 100% truthful, I wish I had learned much more about nutrition earlier on in life. I have learned so much more over the past 15 years than I had in the previous 50 years.

Sodium is a problem for so many Americans. I say that as the American laws are so open that food suppliers can put whatever they want into a package and sell it with all this hype on the front of the product such as "lower fat", "reduced sugar", etc. Then if and when you turn the packaging around and read the important part of the packaging - the nutritional contents of the product, you will see what is actually in there.

My wife and I started "nutrition label reading" style of food shopping about 15 years ago. One day we were buying tomato sauce. One can had 750 mg of sodium and many were in the 500 mg region. I finally found what I was looking for, a can of sauce that only had 50 mg of salt. It had a great taste when we ate it and the cost was lower than most of the other sauces.

Perhaps many of us should have been on "life sentences" for most of our lives rather than finding out as we grow older that things like heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and many of the other maladies we all suffer from could have been curtailed or prevented through nutrition in the previous 50 years of our life.

[Florida_Slotter]

OJ,

As I said, I sure do wish I had learned more about nutrition earlier on in life.

Of course what we learned in school has changed around so many times over the years.

BTW - is it butter or margarine that is healthier today? That changes so much I can't keep up! :laughing-rolling:

[FootScoot]

I too am in the no-low sodium genre. I have to be very careful about my sodium intake due to high blood pressure and being on 3 different kinds of meds for said malady, the sugar thing ain't good either, but I have it under control now.

Marty butter is better for you. It's a natural thing, margarine is not natural. Butter will dissolve in the digestion process, margarine no. :)