Sodium
Raising Dietary Potassium to Sodium Ratio Helps Reduce Heart, Kidney Disease
Reducing sodium (salt) in the diet has been recommended to lower blood pressure and the risk of heart disease. However, in a new review article, University of Southern California researchers found that increasing dietary potassium is as important to improving the risk factors for cardiovascular and kidney disease as limiting dietary sodium. The article is ...
Journal Links Cardiovascular-Related Deaths to Sodium Consumption
According to a recent report published in The New England Journal of Medicine, more than 1.6 million cardiovascular-related deaths per year can be attributed to sodium consumption above the World Health Organization’s recommendation of 2.0g (2,000mg) per day. “High sodium intake is known to increase blood pressure, a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases including ...
Salt Institute: FDA Should Cease Attempt at Regulating Salt
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced their intent to issue voluntary guidelines for food producers to reduce sodium levels, citing a 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report that recommends sodium limits. However, the FDA is ignoring a much more recent 2013 IOM review of studies that examined links between sodium consumption and health ...
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