Salt Tips #9

If you are eating out, check out the content of sodium in foods online. Most of the chains can be found on line. I know we always pick on McDonald's, but here are some sodium facts about their foods, Big Mac contains 1010 milligrams of sodium. Here's one that may surprise you, McDonald's Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich contains 1690 milligrams of sodium.

Burger King and Wendy's are comparable in their sodium content. So let's look at chicken. Kentucky Fried Chicken regular recipe breast contains 1147 milligrams.

What you can see is that when you eat out the sodium mounts up quickly. When I said a few days ago to shoot for 1000 milligrams, I meant for the whole day not just one meal.