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Eating per doctor's instructions is not easy when you are a diabetic heart patient. In helping a family member shop for groceries, I realized we were spending a lot of time reading labels in an effort to find products that fit within the prescribed diet. It was taking too long. We got a lot of strange looks from other shoppers and store clerks.

Most grocery items had too much sodium and/or added sugar. The amount of each you can have per day depends on the diet your doctor prescribes. I was shopping for someone who can only have 2000 mg of salt daily. This amount has to be split between 3 meal...