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Low-Salt Diet

Resources for This Diet

American Heart Association

1615 Stemmons Freeway

Dallas, TX 75207–8806

www.americanheart.org

The No Salt, Lowest-Sodium Cookbook: Hundreds of Favourite Recipes Created to Combat Congestive Heart Failure and Dangerous Hypertension by Donald A. Gazzaniga, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001

Get the Salt Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Salt Out of Any Diet by Ann Louise Gittleman, New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1996.

Cooking Without a Grain of Salt by Elma W. Bagg, New York: Bantam Books, 1998.

USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (on-line search for sodium content)

www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl

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