[sotd] Heart Attack Entrees With Side Orders of Stroke
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- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:05:41 -0400
Site of the Day for Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Heart Attack Entrees With Side Orders of Stroke
Today's site, from the respected Center for Science in the Public Interest,
presents their findings from a recent study of restaurant dishes. Gentle
Subscribers, who are concerned about the sodium content of their diets, may not
realize that their careful efforts of salt restriction may be unwittingly
torpedoed
by a singe restaurant meal.
"Unsafe levels of sodium chloride, or salt, in chain restaurant meals increase
one's chance of developing hypertension, heart attacks, strokes, and kidney
disease
according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The nonprofit food
safety and nutrition watchdog group ... is exposing chain restaurant meals with
dangerously high levels of sodium and is renewing its call on industry and
government to lower sodium levels in foods." - from the website
This brief report highlights the Center for Science in the Public Interest's
analysis of the sodium chloride content of some widely popular restaurant meals.
Featuring some of the worst salt offenders, the article names specific
restaurant
chains and their most salt saturated dishes and includes information on the salt
intake levels for different population groups, according to the U.S.
government's
dietary recommendations. Accompanying the press release is an updated PDF file
which details food manufacturers' excessive use of sodium entitled, "Salt [ed.]
Assault: Brand-name Comparisons of Processed Foods".
Whisk over to the site for an alarming report on the sodium content of some
popular
restaurant meals at:
http://www.cspinet.org/new/200905111.html
A.M. Holm
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