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Article: We're killing ourselves with salt: experts
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- October 26, 2007
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face=+Bold; Health groups pushing to cut sodium levels in foodsface=-Bold;
By Sharon Kirkey
CANADIANS have become salt junkies, our taste buds so tuned down that we need more and more sodium to make food taste salty, according to experts pushing to lower the nation's salt intake.
Their goal is to bring dietary sodium to healthy levels by 2020 by pressuring food makers to reduce levels of the harmful food additive in processed foods through legislation if necessary.
Sodium is being added to the food supply at such high levels it's acting as a "vascular system poison," says Dr. Kevin Willis, director of the Canadian Stroke Network. The result, a coalition of 17 leading health groups say, is ...