2.Processed meats- Any meat preserved by smoking, curing, salting or with the addition of chemical preservatives fit into this category, including ham, bacon, sausage, hot dogs and lunch meats. Understand that 3 oz. of processed meat, which is the amount that can fit into your palm, is enough to be your serving of sodium in a day. If you don’t want high blood pressure your daily quota for sodium, should be less than 1,500 milligrams per day.
3.Frozen Pizza- All pizzas can be bad for those watching their sodium intake. The combination of cheese, cured meats, tomato sauce, and bread adds up the milligrams quickly. But frozen pizza is especially dangerous for anyone who doesn’t want high blood pressure problems. To maintain flavor in the pizza once it has been cooked, manufacturers often add a lot of salt. One-sixth of a frozen pizza can be as much as 1,000 milligrams, sometimes even more. The thicker the crust and the more toppings you have, the higher your sodium number will climb.
4.Canned Tomato Products and tomato juice- Canned tomato sauce and tomato juice are loaded with sodium. One cup of tomato juice contains 680 milligrams of sodium. One serving of spaghetti with meat sauce has over 1,300 milligrams of sodium. This is a quick and easy food to make, but it will cost you years of your life in the long term.
5.Chinese Food- A 2008 New York times article discussed how Chinese people don’t eat Chinese food. Most Chinese people don’t even know what Chinese food is. The sauce in Chinese dishes is loaded with sodium. Beef with Broccoli can have 3,752 mg sodium. Soy sauce and Teriyaki sauce have about 1,000 mg of sodium in just a tablespoon
6.Red Meat- Pork, beef, and lamb are bad for both the heart and blood vessels. Understand that restaurant red meat is fattier and saltier than red meat made at ones home. An 18 oz. ribeye at LongHorn Steakhouse without any sauce has about 1140 calories, 79 grams of fat and 1,500 mg of sodium.