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Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut
How long have you been avoiding salt? Maybe you're somehow low on sodium, or you developed a dependence/tolerance (I have no idea if this is biologically possible) and you're going through withdrawals. The treatment of that would be something I'm not even familiar with when it comes to your specific circumstances.
I would think eating potassium-rich foods would exacerbate the problem of salt cravings, though.
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It's difficult to get too little salt/sodium unless you are a workout warrior. Salt is everywhere. The potassium/sodium ratio should be 2:1. In most American diets it's like 1:5. Potassium won't cause you to crave salt.
The new guidelines for sodium for everyone is 1500 mg/day with a max of 2300 mg/day. The old guideline used to be 2300/day.
Here are just a few items where you get sodium in big doses, or where you didn't thing there was sodium at all:
Any processed food in a can (spaghetti sauce, veggies, etc) - 300 - 1500 mg/serving
Celery - 66 mg/serving
Cereal - 200-400 mg/serving (shredded wheat is very LS)
Bread - 110 - 200 mg/slice
Milk - 120 mg/cup
Flour tortillas - 200-300 mg/tortilla
Corn tortillas - 0 mg/tortilla
I could go on and on, but the rule of thumb is to stay away from canned anything, unless it's salt-free, no salt added, or very low sodium.
Any deli meat is loaded with sodium unless marked otherwise.
Stick to fresh/frozen veggies and fresh meats. It's actually quite easy to cut all the excess salt out of your diet. AND you'll actually taste the food!