• Lifestyle Change - Nutrition

    Eating Low Sodium Is A Challenge

    One of the first thing I realized when starting our healthy lifestyle journey was that we were going to have to seriously modify our diet.  We had already been trying to eat a low-fat diet.  We’d even been transitioning to a more plant-based diet.  The thing that we hadn’t been as mindful of was how much sodium we were consuming.  Many of the sodium recipes that I had found were loaded with salt.  Not just added salt, but salt inherent in the ingredients.  Some Facts About Sodium Sodium is a necessary element of human nutrition.  It is necessary for nerve…

  • Lifestyle Change

    Welcome

     I recently retired.  I’d been looking forward to it for quite a while.  We had plans to travel in a camper van that we had gotten a few years ago.  Two weeks before my scheduled retirement date, my wife was diagnosed with heart failure.  I left my job more abruptly than expected and we have been working on getting her healthy ever since.  It’s surprising how long it takes to get in to see doctors these days.  It took six weeks from the time that she was discharged from the hospital to get in to see a cardiologist.  But finally,…