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Article: Side Benefits Of Cutting Back On Salt: Better Diet And Bone Health.
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Salt has been grabbing health headlines for years. Mostly it's been bad news about how the sodium in salt raises blood pressure (table salt is 40% sodium and 60% chloride). But there has also been research to suggest that little connection exists between salt intake and blood pressure for most people. In recent years, sodium has even come under renewed fire for its role in bone loss.
So, should salt shakers be banned from the table? Should sodium in convenience foods and fast foods come under more suspicion? To make sense of the sodium saga, EN takes a look at the ongoing, seemingly contradictory research.
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