Nutritive Value of Foods

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Infi, over the last ten years I've had my blood pressure checked FAR too many times.
When I was in mental health daycare it was checked twice a day. I hate it, have always hated it and the new electronic ones I hate most of all.

I've never got why other people don't find it distressing.
Now you do, and perversely I'm glad.
Feeling like I'm going to 'splode sets me right off.

buster, as a semi-professional yo-yo dieter I read food labels obsessively.
I am well aware of salt levels.
And yes, some are shocking. You get less salt in a small packet of Ready Salted crisps (chips) than you do in a bowl of tinned tomato soup.
Many breakfast cereals contain salt.
Bread can be surprisingly high too.

When I went on a wholefood diet (too extreme, couldn't stick to it) I became very aware of salt. I had a hamburger as a treat and nearly gagged. The sweetness of the bun and ketchup, the saltiness of the burger - overwhelming. Truly disgusting. But I might eat one tomorrow when I am in town because I lost that clarity of taste.

When I am paying attention I do avoid salty products.
Which means I check labels, when really I should be cooking from scratch.
We have a traffic lights system here, which does help. I won't buy products with an amber light for salt. Let's face it, I befoul my body enough in other ways, and I don't crave salt.