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Sodium In Your Food

Why all the fuss about plain old table salt? What is salt and what role does it play in our survival? Are salt restrictions an example of zealous food police trying to take away one more thing that tastes good? Is salt something we need or is salt a killer condiment? This self-directed PowerCourse corrects misconceptions about salt in food.

Learn:

• Why is salt essential for life?
• What’s the difference between salt and sodium?
• What does salt have to do with high blood pressure?
• Can too much salt cause hypertension?
• How much salt is too much?
• How can you tell how much salt you eat every day?
• Which foods have the most salt? The answer might surprise you.
• You hardly touch the salt shaker, so you can’t eat too much salt, right? Wrong.
• What can you do to control your salt intake?
• The history of salt
• Why potassium is linked to sodium and what that means for your eating habits.
• What’s really in a box of salt?

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