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[Michaelangelica]

This is all over the media today.

From the Australian

Children as young as four are at risk of developing high blood pressure and eventual cardiovascular disease because of high levels of salt in many processed foods.
Even some foods that parents regard as healthy - such as breakfast cereals, cheese, ham and processed meats - are so loaded with salt that young children can easily eat well above their safe daily limit before they have started their evening meal, experts have warned.

The National Heart Foundation will today warn parents to be more vigilant about how much salt their children eat, saying too much puts them at risk of long-term problems and makes healthy home-cooked food taste bland by comparison. If this happened, children were more likely to reject the home cooking and seek more processed, energy-dense foods.

The foundation said a four-year-old who ate cereal for breakfast, a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch and just 25 grams of savoury biscuits for an afternoon snack would have eaten, before dinner time, nearly three times the amount of salt needed for an entire day.

Post-mortem examinations of four-year-old children in Britain have revealed signs of early vascular disease, according to Graham MacGregor, a professor of cardiovascular medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School in London.

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Salt is a substance with many different names
December 5, 2006 on 4:02 pm | In Uncategorized |

Salt is a substance with many different names. So even if you make the extra effort to read food labels and search for the amount of salt in the product, it can be difficult to determine. The following list contains a few of salt”s aliases: sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, sodium benzoate, monosodium glutamate (MSG), sodium nitrate and disodium. Other products with a large sodium content include hydrolyzed vegetable protein, soy sauce, miso and brine.

Health Info » Salt is a substance with many different names

Dr Basil Hetzel is one of Australia's most famous medical research scientists. He has shown that iodine is vital in the human diet. In the process he has saved millions of lives and a billion IQ points.. . .

cretinism had been prevented by the injection of the iodised oil before pregnancy. If pregnancy was already established, there was still a risk of cretinism.
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Have you ever met a cretin? The word is harsh in its implications; it means daft or dim-witted. But cretin actually comes from the word Christian,
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Finally, we in Australia have to come to terms with iodine deficiency in our own country. A national survey, carried out by Professor Creswell Eastman and his team from Westmead Hospital, Sydney, has demonstrated that iodine deficiency exists in schoolchildren throughout Australia. A National Program with iodised salt is urgently required to meet this threat to the brain development of our children and preparations are now being made to launch a formal program in Australia.

Ockham's Razor - 26 November 2006 - The elimination of iodine deficiency as a cause of brain damage