Restrict your sodium (salt) intake. Try to limit sodium intake to less than 1,500 milligrams a day. This target is especially important for middle-aged and older people, African-Americans, and people with high blood pressure. The DASH diet is a good example of a heart-healthy eating plan that limits sodium intake.
The Common Core is not a curriculum, only a set of standards: goals and expectations for students. Curriculums will still be developed by local teachers, principals, superintendents, and others. Individual lesson plans will still create the lesson plans in their classrooms.
At a dinner with colleagues in 2009, Mitchell Chester, Massachusettsâs commissioner of education, hatched what seemed like an obvious answer â a national test based on the Common Core standards that almost every state had recently adopted.