Most people have a love-hate relationship with salt—aka sodium. It tastes great, and sodium is necessary for our nerves to work efficiently and our muscles to properly contract and relax. It's also an ...

Cutting back on your salt intake is often easier said than done. Even when you’ve ditched the saltshaker, sodium can still sneak into your diet in a variety of ways, from canned foods to deli meats ...

We don’t exactly like to encourage turning to TikTok for your health trends, but they’re on to something with cottage cheese.

Here’s the thing most people get wrong about low sodium eating: they focus on what they can’t have instead of understanding how their body actually works. The average American eats five or more ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband had a nonstop coughing incident for a night and day after a feast, which landed him in the emergency room. He was found to have extremely low sodium levels (118-120 mEq/L), ...

Contrary to what you might think, canned foods can be part of your diet if you have high blood pressure.

Suzanne Fisher, RD, is a registered dietitian and licensed nutritionist with nearly 35 years of experience in evidence-based nutrition and exercise physiology. Soups that help manage high blood ...

In older adults, low sodium often results from certain medications, kidney issues, or infections. Because multiple factors may contribute, treatment depends on identifying the underlying cause. Sodium ...

If you're one of the many Americans trying to reduce the sodium in your diet, potassium chloride may help do the trick, dietitians say. But some people need to be careful when adding this to their ...

Both the medical and lay literature have entertained much discussion about the role of diet in general and sodium intake specifically to minimize population risk for cardiovascular disease and ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My mother’s blood test has a sodium level of 130 mEq/L. She is not on diuretics, and she does not have heart or kidney problems. She is on thyroid medication and omeprazole. Do I need ...