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Summary: Impressive, Thorough Little Book
Review: "Get the Salt Out" does indeed contain 501 numbered suggestiond for cutting salt from your diet. A number of these suggestions overlap, but I was impressed by the thoroughness of the book. I have high blood pressure and have been on a low-salt diet for years; however, this book alerted me to many hidden sources of sodium, such as baking soda and packaged cereals. The book is split into sections, such as getting the salt out of cooking, finding good low-salt fast food, and low-salt sauces. The author even points out that licking postage stamps adds sodium to your diet! That's thoroughness! The book also contains a number of low-salt recipes scattered throughout (at least 50). In addition, Gittleman discusses the various types of salt/sodium and gives recommendations about how to avoid unnecessary processed sodium in favor of healthier (and tastier) natural salt. The author gives numerous suggestions about low-sodium products that can be purchased in stores or on-line. I have a number of low-salt cookbooks, but this book is the best in combining recipes with solid suggestions. A real winner, and I look forward to using these suggestions to further reduce my sodium intake.
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Summary: Impressive, Thorough Little Book
Review: "Get the Salt Out" does indeed contain 501 numbered suggestiond for cutting salt from your diet. A number of these suggestions overlap, but I was impressed by the thoroughness of the book. I have high blood pressure and have been on a low-salt diet for years; however, this book alerted me to many hidden sources of sodium, such as baking soda and packaged cereals. The book is split into sections, such as getting the salt out of cooking, finding good low-salt fast food, and low-salt sauces. The author even points out that licking postage stamps adds sodium to your diet! That's thoroughness! The book also contains a number of low-salt recipes scattered throughout (at least 50). In addition, Gittleman discusses the various types of salt/sodium and gives recommendations about how to avoid unnecessary processed sodium in favor of healthier (and tastier) natural salt. The author gives numerous suggestions about low-sodium products that can be purchased in stores or on-line. I have a number of low-salt cookbooks, but this book is the best in combining recipes with solid suggestions. A real winner, and I look forward to using these suggestions to further reduce my sodium intake.
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Summary: Must reading for anyone concerned about salt intake.
Review: "Get The Salt Out" is one of the more unusual salt books on the market, but I learned more from this book than any other on similar topic including the American Heart Association's guidelines.
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Summary: 501 ways to changes
Review: Anne Louise Gittleman provides helpful tips on how to become a better and more healthier person. With 501 ways to get harmful salt and sodium out of any diet, this book was very informative, supplying and in-depth look into the affects that both salt and sodium have on the body. If your concerend with what salt can do to your body, this book sure helps. Gittleman covers all areas that invlove salt, from refining it, how the body uses it,to how much the body should consume. Salt and sodum can be the source of many illnesses from headaches to hypertension. The thing that I liked about the book was that it alerted the reader to hidden sources of sodium and that it suggested the reasonable amounts of sodium and salt that should be consumed daily.
Also, this book did not leave the reader at a loss of what to do with the information they just recieved. Gittleman offers numerous tips and low-sodium or sodium free recepies that can be used to make a healthier diet for those in need of a change. Another great aspect to this book was that if your really interested in changing your diet,but you don't know where to find the foods that are suggested, a resources section is included, with names of and numbers to the stores that supply what you need. So, if it is change that your looking for, do it with "Get the Salt Out."
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Summary: Brought my blood pressure down 50 points
Review: Get the Salt Out is definitely a winner. I have been trying to reduce my high blood pressure using the traditional low sodium diet guidelines. After reading Ann Louise's book Get the Salt Out and using her supplement suggestions as well as her recipes throughout the book, within three weeks my blood pressure normalized to l20/80. Now I won't have to use any medication.
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Summary: Not All Salt is Created Equal
Review: I found Get the Salt OUt a terrificly interesting book. I do not have a medical problem related to sodium intake but I do seem to bloat alot when I eat certain foods...This book and its unusal recipes have given me a flat tummy plus alot of food for thought. I have always thought salt was a necessary element to the diet..and now I am using the REAL SALT the author suggests and I feel satisifed and food is tasting good again. Common sense and innovative, to say the least...Some of the recipes really are tastey once you make them. (SMILE)
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Summary: My Dad Really Enjoyed ThisBook
Review: I picked up this book for my Dad who was just diagnosed with high blood pressure. My Dad is not following the doctor's orders and so I am trying to help him out a little. He actually liked this book and is having my mother make the recipes. That's quite a feat for any writer to accomplish with my father.
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Summary: Excellent Book to Prevent High Sodium Conditions- Goes Far
Review: I thought this book was extremely innovative..The author identifies numerous sources of hidden sodium in the environment..from water softeners to various preservatives and seasonings in fast food itself..She also points out, unlike any other book I have ever read, that stress can affect our body's retention of sodium..So this book delivers alot more than those other cut and dry and simplistic American Heart Association resources. Gittleman is always ahead of the crowd and this book is no exception.
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Summary: Get the Salt Out is a Great Book
Review: This book was so easy to read and follow that I did not feel that I was on a restricted diet. The book identified lots of hidden sources of salt that I had no idea existed and made me feel that I was in safe hands following the author's advice.
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Summary: Commercial effort
Review: This book will not help readers who really need to understand what No Salt means. It's recipes are off the wall and its textbook appearance is a turn off, especially since most of the material is basic. Recipes have too much sodium and even use some salt in many of them. For instance, her "Annette's Oatmeal Waffles" recipe has about 200mg of sodium per waffle. Too high for heart patients or those with hypertension. There are occassional assists concerning where to find certain foods and condiments, but that's as far as it goes. The author's designated authority is her M.S. and her CNS (certified nutritional scientist), but she had no R.D., which puts her out of the nutritional loop as far as authority. Her connection with the Pritikin group makes her effort suspect as a commercial venture.
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