Plain and simple, eat less salt!

Many of us just HAVE to have our Salt and most of us get pretty upset if someone tries to limit our salt intake. We just have it!

Sodium is a mineral that YES is totally essential for your body to keep going.  Salt is regulated in your body by your kidneys and aids in the control of your body's fluid and balance. Salt also assists in sending nerve impulses and muscle function.

When there’s extra sodium in your bloodstream, it pulls water into your blood vessels, increasing the total volume of blood inside. With more blood flowing through, blood pressure increases. It’s like turning up the water supply to a garden hose — the pressure in the hose increases as more water is blasted through it. Over time, high blood pressure may overstretch or injure the blood vessel walls and speed the build-up of gunky plaque that can block blood flow. The added pressure also tires out the heart by forcing it to work harder to pump blood through the body.
- See more at: http://sodiumbreakup.heart.org/sodium-411/sodium-and-your-health/#sthash.XuYeUtbu.dpuf

it pulls water into your blood vessels, increasing the total volume of blood inside. With more blood flowing through, blood pressure increases. It’s like turning up the water supply to a garden hose — the pressure in the hose increases as more water is blasted through it. Over time, high blood pressure may overstretch or injure the blood vessel walls and speed the build-up of gunky plaque that can block blood flow. The added pressure also tires out the heart by forcing it to work harder to pump blood through the body. - See more at: http://sodiumbreakup.heart.org/sodium-411/sodium-and-your-health/#sthash.XuYeUtbu.dpuf

it pulls water into your blood vessels, increasing the total volume of blood inside. With more blood flowing through, blood pressure increases. It’s like turning up the water supply to a garden hose — the pressure in the hose increases as more water is blasted through it. Over time, high blood pressure may overstretch or injure the blood vessel walls and speed the build-up of gunky plaque that can block blood flow. The added pressure also tires out the heart by forcing it to work harder to pump blood through the body. - See more at: http://sodiumbreakup.heart.org/sodium-411/sodium-and-your-health/#sthash.XuYeUtbu.dpuf

it pulls water into your blood vessels, increasing the total volume of blood inside. With more blood flowing through, blood pressure increases. It’s like turning up the water supply to a garden hose — the pressure in the hose increases as more water is blasted through it. Over time, high blood pressure may overstretch or injure the blood vessel walls and speed the build-up of gunky plaque that can block blood flow. The added pressure also tires out the heart by forcing it to work harder to pump blood through the body. - See more at: http://sodiumbreakup.heart.org/sodium-411/sodium-and-your-health/#sthash.XuYeUtbu.dpuf

it pulls water into your blood vessels, increasing the total volume of blood inside. With more blood flowing through, blood pressure increases. It’s like turning up the water supply to a garden hose — the pressure in the hose increases as more water is blasted through it. Over time, high blood pressure may overstretch or injure the blood vessel walls and speed the build-up of gunky plaque that can block blood flow. The added pressure also tires out the heart by forcing it to work harder to pump blood through the body. - See more at: http://sodiumbreakup.heart.org/sodium-411/sodium-and-your-health/#sthash.XuYeUtbu.dpuf

Sodium is a mineral that’s essential for life. It’s regulated in the body by your kidneys, and it helps control your body’s fluid balance. It also helps send nerve impulses and affects muscle function.
When there’s extra sodium in your bloodstream, it pulls water into your blood vessels, increasing the total volume of blood inside. With more blood flowing through, blood pressure increases. It’s like turning up the water supply to a garden hose — the pressure in the hose increases as more water is blasted through it. Over time, high blood pressure may overstretch or injure the blood vessel walls and speed the build-up of gunky plaque that can block blood flow. The added pressure also tires out the heart by forcing it to work harder to pump blood through the body.
- See more at: http://sodiumbreakup.heart.org/sodium-411/sodium-and-your-health/#sthash.XuYeUtbu.dpuf

Salt is high in so many of our foods such as:

• Processed foods/lunch meats
• Canned foods
• Many mixed drinks
• Pickled foods

Are you being CPR smart?

In the US approximately every hour - 38 people will have a cardiac arrest event at some point outside a medical facility. Nine out of those ten people will not survive but if lifesaving CPR is performed,  the chance doubles and at times even triples. 

In the state of Texas every young adult will have to have CPR training and pass to graduate from high school. The training has to be taught sometime between 7th grade and 12th grade. 

States in yellow in the image below are states that it is now mandatory for graduation from high school to have had CPR training.



To read the bill in full, you can visit http://www.legis.state.tx.us or click here. To read success stories and find out more information about CPR in our schools and requirements, click here.