Tag Archives: salt

• Health

  Report questions benefits of salt reduction

  Reducing salt consumption below the currently recommended daily amount may be unnecessary.
• Health

  STUDY: Too much salt in meals and snacks made for toddlers

  Most packaged meals and snacks marketed to toddlers have more than the recommended amount of sodium per serving, meaning children as young as one are most likely eating far too much salt early in life.
• Health

  STUDY: Cutting salt intake could save a half-million lives

  Too much sodium contributes to high blood pressure, which increases heart attack and stroke risks.
• Health

  Lowering salt intake may be key to lowering childhood obesity rates

  A new study in the Journal Pediatrics suggests a key way to reduce childhood obesity could be to limit your child’s salt intake.
• Health

  Could warnings about salt consumption be wrong?

  (CNN) – Could all those warnings about too much salt be wrong?  An independent investigator with the Robert Wood Johnson…