Nothing is quite like certified organic, low sodium, non-bioengineered microwave dinners.

Since I have higher-than-desirable blood-pressure, I try to avoid eating too much Sodium. It's actually fairly difficult to eat low sodium unless I cook absolutely everything myself. Fast food is right out. For example, a Wendy's grilled chicken sandwhich and a side salad with honey mustard dressing adds up to 1450 milligrams of sodium. One is supposed to eat less that 2300 a day, and apparently the American Medical Association was a bit liberal with that number. They actually wanted to lower it to 1500 fairly recently. That particular fast food selection is actually fairly low compared to some other places. So if I ate that one day, I would have to eat nothing but no-salt peanut butter and plain raw veggies with no dressing for the rest of the day. I know the food industry uses salt to increase shelf life and generally make food taste better, but gee.

The other day I noticed Amy's Kitchen meals in the organic section. These were much more reasonable with sodiums levels like 300-700 mg for a meal. They also make even lower sodium versions of their products, but sadly these aren't sold at Farm Fresh. I had a few burritos and Indian Vegetable Korma (no, I don't really know what Korma refers to), and I was happy with the results.

My doctor gave/lent me a blood-pressure machine. He actually said I should use it an return it when I'm done, or if I don't, who cares. One of my co-workers had been to the hospital after being shot in the foot, and had found out his blood pressure was really high. He thought it was because he had just been shot, but later it turned out that it's always extremely high, so he started checking with my machine. Another coworker found out his was high too. they both went to the doctor. One ended up on really strong medications and is undergoing tests. The other one is currently trying to control his with diet and exercise. They've both decided, jokingly, that it's my fault they have high blood pressure.