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5 Things About Salt
Mon, 12/03/2007 - 7:30am by FitSugar

Since the FDA is considering regulating sodium in processed foods, I have been hearing more and more about the reasons why. Here are five things to ponder about the sodium content in your diet.

* Seventy -five percent of the salt we consume comes from processed food and food from restaurants, not from the salt shaker.
* Your tongue cannot adequately discern how much salt is in your food. If the salt is on the surface of the food, like a potato chip, it will taste salty. However, when the sodium of a serving of frozen mac-n-cheese is 500 mg chances are your tongue will not register that this portion of food contains 25 percent of your RDI (recommended daily intake) of sodium. You really need to read the nutritional label on processed foods to know.

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FDA under pressure to do something about salt in foods
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The Food and Drug Administration in the United States is coming under increasing pressure to enforce tougher regulations on the amount of sodium in food.

The pressure is coming from the American Medical Association (AMA) and the watchdog consumer group the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) who both say that Americans are consuming too much salt.

The CSPI says that 150,000 lives could be saved in the U.S. annually if salt in processed foods and restaurant foods were reduced by half.

CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson says it is becoming increasingly hard for FDA officials to ignore the calls to action made in recent years by the medical community with regard to salt in food.

Jacobson says the average person in the United States consumes 4,000 mg of sodium each day, which is twice the recommended maximum and that excess promotes hypertension, stroke, heart attacks, kidney failure and early death.

FDA under pressure to do something about salt in foods

Lowered BP after ""no salt added"" diet

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Simply avoiding pre-salted foods and not adding salt to foods can result in a modest but statistically significant reduction in blood pressure, study findings suggest.

A modest reduction in dietary salt, measured by sodium content in the urine by about 35 percent and lowered daytime blood pressure by 12.1 mm Hg systolic and 6.8 mm Hg diastolic in patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) not taking anti-hypertensive medications, reports Dr. Javad Kojuri. Blood pressure readings at night were slightly lower.

Kojuri and Dr. Rahim Rahimi, both from Shiraz University in Iran, assessed blood pressure and 24-hour urinary sodium excretion in 60 individuals before and after instructing them to follow a 'no salt added' diet for 6 weeks.

Twenty subjects who did not follow the diet were used as a comparison group (""controls""). All of the subjects were similar in age, gender, weight, blood pressure, and initial urinary sodium excretion.

tehran times : Lowered BP after ""no salt added"" diet

Cutting down on salt can lessen stomach cancer risk
Mon, December 3, 2007
By DR. RICHARD BELIVEAU


Stomach cancers are responsible for about 10 per cent of all cancers diagnosed each year.

In its latest report, the World Cancer Research Fund indicates that reducing our salt intake is a simple and easy way to prevent the development of this cancer.

London Free Press - Today - Cutting down on salt can lessen stomach cancer risk