A new study confirms what we've known for some time: Americans eat too much salt. But many prepackaged foods are now getting healthier.
Packaged and restaurant foods are to blame for almost 80 percent of the salt in our diets, but now many foods are getting healthier. After a nationwide initiative, 21food companies including Kraft, Heinz and Subway joined leaders in New York City to announce they've lowered salt in their products.
Most people consume a teaspoon of salt a day. That's more than double the amount recommended. New research from University of California San Francisco shows as many as half a million lives could be saved over ten years if Americans reduced salt 40-percent.
Doctors say high salt in your diet or high sodium is one of the reasons why people have high blood pressure. So for many people,lowering sodium can lower blood pressure and then prevent stroke, kidney disease, and heart attacks.
The Centers for Disease Control has about a third of Americans have high blood pressure, but fewer than half of them have it under control.
Packaged and restaurant foods are to blame for almost 80 percent of the salt in our diets, but now many foods are getting healthier. After a nationwide initiative, 21food companies including Kraft, Heinz and Subway joined leaders in New York City to announce they've lowered salt in their products.
Most people consume a teaspoon of salt a day. That's more than double the amount recommended. New research from University of California San Francisco shows as many as half a million lives could be saved over ten years if Americans reduced salt 40-percent.
Doctors say high salt in your diet or high sodium is one of the reasons why people have high blood pressure. So for many people,lowering sodium can lower blood pressure and then prevent stroke, kidney disease, and heart attacks.
The Centers for Disease Control has about a third of Americans have high blood pressure, but fewer than half of them have it under control.
Charlotte Ames is the area's only local Health Reporter and brings you the latest medical health news weeknights. You can catch Healthcast on WTAJ News at 5:00pm and her Health Headlines report on WTAJ News at 5:30pm.