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Dishing Up Nutrition

Blood Pressure Risk: Salt or Sugar

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.3868 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the US with hypertension or high blood pressure implicated as the primary cause. Controlling hypertension is and has been a major focus of public health initiatives. Often the advice for blood pressure issues is to reduce your salt intake. How does salt cause high levels of blood pressure? What does sugar have to do with hypertension? What are you eating that may be containing too much sodium or sugar and negatively effecting your blood pressure? As nutritionists and dietitians, we’ll be talking about this food connection to your blood pressure and what you can do about it.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition. This show is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

0:04.8

My name is Cassie Wienis. I've been a registered and licensed dietitian for the past 24 years.

0:10.7

Of those 24 years, I've been here with nutritional weight and wellness for about 15, maybe 15 and a half.

0:17.7

And I can honestly say of the variety of different organizations I've worked for

0:23.7

within my career as a dietitian, this is my favorite nutrition company, partly because I

0:30.3

get to work with really fun, great people, one of whom is in the studio with me today. I'll

0:36.0

introduce her in just a bit. But also because I

0:38.5

get to do what I love to do, I get to host this Dishing Up Nutrition Radio program. I get to

0:44.1

teach corporate lunch and learn classes. And I still have time to be a full-time mom. So I really,

0:50.8

I really do get to do everything I love to do. Longtime listeners, I'm sure, know that I have

0:56.9

two teenagers at home now. Hard to believe they're teenagers already. And both of them have

1:03.1

celiac disease, so they avoid gluten 100%. I myself have a non-celiac gluten sensitivity, so I'm basically on the same diet as them,

1:14.0

and I truly enjoy getting in the kitchen and cooking up delicious gluten-free food, real food

1:20.5

for my family. So if you are someone wondering whether or not your health problems might be

1:27.3

coming from gluten,

1:28.6

or maybe you've recently went gluten-free, but you're struggling when it comes to grocery

1:33.7

shopping or meal prep or family gatherings. I want to let you know that we have a great

1:40.1

online class. It's a pre-recorded class that you can take whenever it's convenient for you,

1:46.4

whether it's from the comfort of your own home or wherever is convenient for you. It's called

1:51.6

going gluten-free the healthy way. You can find it at weight and wellness.com. Just click on classes.

1:57.8

It's only $25, so it's a great deal, and I will share some tips, some tricks,

2:03.7

and some delicious recipes. So I just wanted to let you know about that. And now let's bring it

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