Planning Low-Sodium Meals: A Community Project

WITHIN recent years the use of low-sodium diets in the treatment of congestive heart failure has become accepted medical practice.1 Moreover, the beneficial results obtained in hypertensive patients on the Kempner rice diet have been attributed by some authorities primarily to the rigid sodium restriction of the rice diet.2 However, attempts to maintain a patient on a rice or other low-sodium diet are often discouraging for both patient and physician; hence often the full potential benefit of the diet is not attained.A study of low-sodium diets was undertaken in February, 1950, in Newton, Massachusetts, as one of the activities . . .