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A Little Salt Reduction Can Lead to a Healthier Heart

"All things in moderation".  You have heard this saying applied to so many things. New research is showing that moderation, not an all out elimination, is the best way to deal with salt in your diet.  Though there is no doubt that over use of salt can lead to high blood pressure, hypertension and heart disease a bit of salt does not harm your heart.

Some salt in your diet is actually beneficial.  The problem is that our modern diet provides us with too many over processed and over salted food choices.  About 95 percent of adult men and 75 percent of adult women get too much salt.  This means that the vast majority of American are getting more than the recommend maximum of 2,300 milligrams of salt a day.

"Left unchecked, we seem to consume more and more salt," says Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, a University of California internist.

So how much is too much?  Can decreasing salt even a little improve the population's future risk for heart disease, heart attacks and strokes? Bibbins-Domingo and her fellow researchers have worked to answer this question. 

The good news is that the answer was a definite yes.  The study was presented to the American Heart Association at the annual conference in Palm Harbor.

So how can you cut down on your salt intake without suffering?  Cutting out processed food is the key.  The American College of Nutrition points out that 77 percent of our sodium intake comes from processed foods. 

For simple substitution ideas click here.  

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