How Much Salt Is Too Much?
Posted January 20, 2009 12:00 pm.
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It’s in your breakfast cereal.
It’s in your French fries.
You’ll find it in vegetable juice and in soup.
And it may even be added to your bottled water.
Finding a food or beverage that doesn’t contain a significant amount of salt isn’t easy and that’s a problem. It’s the favourite additive of many, and you don’t have to be chowing down on a steady diet of pretzels and potato chips to be getting too much of it.
Salt can raise your blood pressure, leading to hypertension and upping your risk of a heart attack or a stroke.
How can you reduce it if you’re not even sure it’s there?
Here’s where to find the sodium content in some of the common foods you eat everyday.
How to control your salt intake
Salt addicts warned of dangers
How much salt should you have?
