Get the Salt Out. 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Salt Out of Any Diet

Editorial Review
In this day and age, when fat is blamed for all our health problems, it's often easy to forget that salt can also be a dietary culprit. While salt is necessary for both bodily and cellular function, and is certainly crucial to the satisfying taste of some of our favorite foods, recent research shows that its excess consumption can also lead to hypertension, strokes, and a variety of cardiovascular problems.

In Get the Salt Out, nationally recognized nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman reveals 501 ways to avoid excess salt intake by serving a variety of delicious low-sodium foods, taking advantage of tasty salt substitutes and steering clear of many surprising hidden sources of salt. She provides more than fifty delicious recipes for low-sodium foods, which will add healthful new staples to the diet of anyone who wants to "get the salt out."

Other features include:
¸  Advice on how to use herbs effectively to reduce sodium intake
¸  Tips for reading labels to expose salt where it is hidden in ingredient lists, as well as other points of supermarket salt savvy
¸  Ways to reduce the salt level in your water
¸  Advice for avoiding salt when you eat out
¸  Tips for dealing with stress and other impediments you may face in your efforts to get the salt out
¸  A week-long menu plan
¸  A resource section

Get the Salt Out has all the tips, menu plans and recipes to help you enjoy real foods again and create meals that both your taste buds and your body can truly savor!
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Customer Reviews

get the salt out

2008-02-24
This was a very helpful book for me. I have menieres disease and it would seem the only way I am able to help control the symptoms is to have less salt in my diet. This book was helpful educating me on how to bring it about.

Bad science

2005-04-18
The author is guilty of repeating a lot of bad science. The is ABSOLUTELY no difference between table salt and sea salt as far as the body is concerned. The same goes for natural vs artificial MSG, which is recognized as "generally safe" by the FDA.

I imagine a lot of people have taken to using sea salt on this bad advice. It's just as likely to give you a stroke or heart attack!

501 ways to changes

2005-01-19
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."

Impressive, Thorough Little Book

2003-05-23
"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.

My Dad Really Enjoyed ThisBook 1999-03-27
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.

Get the Salt Out is a Great Book 1999-03-26
In this day and age, when fat is blamed for all our health problems, it's often easy to forget that salt can also be a dietary culprit. While salt is necessary for both bodily and cellular function, and is certainly crucial to the satisfying taste of some of our favorite foods, recent research shows that its excess consumption can also lead to hypertension, strokes, and a variety of cardiovascular problems.

In Get the Salt Out, nationally recognized nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman reveals 501 ways to avoid excess salt intake by serving a variety of delicious low-sodium foods, taking advantage of tasty salt substitutes and steering clear of many surprising hidden sources of salt. She provides more than fifty delicious recipes for low-sodium foods, which will add healthful new staples to the diet of anyone who wants to "get the salt out."

Other features include:
¸  Advice on how to use herbs effectively to reduce sodium intake
¸  Tips for reading labels to expose salt where it is hidden in ingredient lists, as well as other points of supermarket salt savvy
¸  Ways to reduce the salt level in your water
¸  Advice for avoiding salt when you eat out
¸  Tips for dealing with stress and other impediments you may face in your efforts to get the salt out
¸  A week-long menu plan
¸  A resource section

Get the Salt Out has all the tips, menu plans and recipes to help you enjoy real foods again and create meals that both your taste buds and your body can truly savor!

Excellent Book to Prevent High Sodium Conditions- Goes Far 1999-02-22
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.

Not All Salt is Created Equal 1999-02-18
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)

Brought my blood pressure down 50 points 1998-11-06
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.

Must reading for anyone concerned about salt intake. 1998-10-21
"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.