[net-gold] Time to Collect the Salt Shakers
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- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:32:49 -0500 (EST)
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:45:05 -0500
From: Jon Gelman <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Time to Collect the Salt Shakers
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Time to Collect the Salt Shakers
The reduction of factors contributing
to cardiovascular disease would
make any workplace a lot healthier.
Recently, Mayor Bloomberg equated
the deadly effects of asbestos
exposure with salt intake.
Health experts urge Americans to hold the salt
Erin Allday, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, February 15, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=
/c/a/2010/02/14/MNEB1BS6EO.DTL>
Before surging obesity rates made
villains of trans fats and sugars,
salt was the big nutritional bad guy
in the American diet, linked to
hypertension, heart disease and stroke.
Now, aware that Americans' salt
consumption has risen by 50 percent
over the past 40 years largely
because of an increased reliance on
a diet of processed and restaurant
foods, public health experts and
politicians are attempting to put the
spotlight back on salt and its harmful
health effects.
Last month, New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg asked restaurants and
foodmakers to consider voluntarily
reducing the salt content in their foods
by 25 percent over five years. A few days
later, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom,
who suggested last fall that the city
find a way to scale back sugar consumption,
said he was looking into Bloomberg's
proposal, too.
Meanwhile, a UCSF doctor released a study
suggesting that regulating the salt content
in foods could save up to $24 billion a
year in health care costs.
"We're living in such a high-salt
environment now. It requires a public health
approach to reducing salt rather than an
individual approach," said Dr. Kirsten
Bibbins- Domingo, co-director of UCSF's
Center for Vulnerable Populations at
San Francisco General Hospital and lead author
of the salt study.
The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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