My boyfriends 8 year old son has been told to lower his sodiom intake. Any good food ideas that a kid likes?

Answer 1

First, it would be good to know why he was told to do this and to understand that low sodium diets are not good. Salt has never, ever been proven to affect blood pressure and salt is necessary to allow the body to make stomach acid that is necessary for proper digestion and to kill bacteria entering the stomach from foods eaten.

It is important not to eat the white, bleached, salt you buy in grocery stores because it is harmful to the body from all the chemicals in it and how it was processed.

You need to get about 1 tsp. or more of good quality sea salt that contains minerals and ingredients that nourish the body. The best salt is a combination of Mediterranean sea salt and Hawaiian Red salt. This combination is wonderful good for the body.

I found a great source for it and it is inexpensive at: www.healthline.cc (not .com). You can order at: (310) 320 - 1123 and they will ship it to you. I buy lots of it from them and have been very happy with it. It has a stronger salt taste so you won't have to use as much as with the store bought garbage.

Sodium and Potassium are used by the body to put nutrients into cells and remove nutrients. The body's "sodium pump" puts nutrients into the cells and the "potassium pump" removes them.

Good luck to you

Answer 2

fruit, any kind the child will eat. And lots of fluids, like diet snapple teas and also water. Also potassium rich food to help him lower his natural salt balance. a half cup of raisins a day should help alot, they are the one food highest in natural potassium

Answer 3

That's a toughie. Almost everything we eat is loaded with sodium.Hopefully he likes fresh fruit.I've listed a link below to some low sodium foods. Good luck.

Answer 4

Use potassium instead of salt and keep him off the crisps!

You can get potassium 'salt' in your supermarket easily.