Are you increasingly seeing more and more low-sodium products on the grocery shelves? This is because the 2010 Dietary Guidelines emphasize reducing salt in your diet to less than 2300 mg for otherwise healthy people and to less than 1500 mg for those who are 51 and older, African American or have hypertension, diabetes or…
Is Salt Intake Correlated with Teen Obesity?
In the world we live in today portion sizes are growing, along with America’s waist sizes. It has been known that consuming increased portion sizes and sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to obesity; but what about salt intake? Many of us do not take a step back and think about the sodium content of our foods…
