One of the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 tools is to manage blood pressure.  At 140/90 you are considered hypertensive.  The goal is less than 120/80.  One of the easiest ways to control your blood pressure is to reduce your sodium intake by observing how much sodium is in the products you are buying.  The American Heart Association recommends that you limit your salt intake to 1500 mg. per day.  Guess how much salt is in a all-beef hot dog?

  680 mg. Sodium!

That’s almost half your daily allotment!  The American Heart Association would like you to break up with salt.

To take the American Heart Association’s Pledge to Break Up with Salt, visit: http://sodiumbreakup.heart.org/

Contact Ambassador Janice Litvin at 415.518.2202 if you would like her to speak to your organization about the American Heart Association’s Campaign to reduce heart disease by 20% by the year 2020.