Please don’t pass the salt

Almost everyone eats way too much salt these days. Luckily this is an easy thing to track in Heads Up, so pay attention to it. Most people find if they lower their sodium intake, in a short amount of time they don’t miss it. Personally I find most processed foods too salty tasting these days, as is normal in people who restrict their sodium intake. Besides the health reasons, excess sodium intake causes bloating, so you’ll look skinnier if you cut the salt.

Here’s a recent study indicating thousands of lives would be saved if people just lowered their sodium intake.

Consuming a little less salt could mean fewer deaths

For every gram of salt that Americans reduce in their diets daily, a quarter of a million fewer new heart disease cases and over 200,000 fewer deaths would occur over a decade, researchers said at the American Heart Association’s 49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.

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