Tips for reducing salt in your diet, from Harvard Men’s Health Watch
Experts agree that the average American diet contains far more sodium than needed. Over the past dozen years, the evidence has tilted strongly in favor of reducing dietary sodium to lower blood pressure and improve health. Yet progress toward lowering sodium has been slow, in part because Americans are accustomed to salty foods.
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