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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Working with the food industry to cut salt intake by nearly 10 percent could prevent hundreds of thousands of heart attacks and strokes over several decades and save the U.S. government $32 billion in healthcare costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Eating too much salt is a major cause of high blood pressure, which the Institute of Medicine, one of the National Academies of Sciences, last week declared a "neglected disease" that costs the U.S. health system $73 billion a year.
Several governments including the United States are looking for solutions to curb salt intake as a way to head off future heart attacks and strokes that help drain healthcare systems.
Industry crackdown on salt could save U.S. billions
Seeded on Wed Mar 3, 2010 2:27 AM EST
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Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.
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#1 - Wed Mar 3, 2010 2:27 AM ESTSo what is the simplest solution to you friend?
Read all the 118+ comments to the article; people get really riled up and politically divisive.
People don't want a tax on salt; don't want government regulation; yet do want less salt in prepackaged prepared food. (only thing I've noticed is corn syrup in everything).
Do you accept that salt causes high bloodpressure? Sould we eat less of it?
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The best current medical evidence suggests that salt is a contributor to high blood pressure. High blood pressure contributes to stroke and heart disease. It follows that if we reduced salt in processed foods then we could reduce the number of strokes and heart attacks, according to this article dramatically. Certain foods require salt at some level but I submit that our health is being jeopardized by this simple basic food additive and it should be reduced. The industry has known about the problem for a very long time and is unwilling or incapable of addressing it without government intervention.
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I have high blood pressure and I am a saltaholic.-------- Is there a support group for that?
- 1 vote
#2 - Fri Mar 5, 2010 12:36 PM ESTI too love salt and I too have hypertension but these days most of my salt comes from foods where I can't even taste it.
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I too am a (salt-o-holic?), have hyper-bp, and appreciate your coment; thanks.
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