Excess salt in your diet can lead to high blood pressure, hypertension, stroke, and other heart-related issues. For anyone diagnosed with heart failure, it’s critical to cut back salt consumption. The more you can incorporate these heart-healthy habits into your diet, the less your heart failure symptoms will disrupt your life. For more tips, here are heart-healthy habits to treat heart failure.
Dr. Goodman is board-certified in cardiology, internal medicine, lipidology, integrative medicine, and cardiac CT. He is the director of integrative medicine at the NYU Langone Medical Center and a clinical professor of medicine at NYU.
References
American Heart Association. (2018). How to reduce sodium.
American Heart Association. (2023). Living with heart failure and managing advanced HF.
Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. (2024). About heart failure.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2024). Tips for reducing sodium intake.
The Heart Failure Society of America. (n.d.). Heart failure facts & information.
U.S. Food & Drug Administration. (2022). Sodium in your diet use the Nutrition Facts label and reduce your intake.
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