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More fries with your salt?
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 17, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Canadian fast food among the saltiest, study finds Reference: CMAJ: The variability of reported salt levels in fast foods across six countries
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Dietary salt sources often missed
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 8, 2012 Source: Bread a culprit in Americans eating too much salt Reference: Where’s the sodium? There’s too much in many common foods.
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Does low salt intake increase heart disease risk? One study does not prove a trend
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 23, 2011 Source: Low salt intake linked to heart-disease deaths Heart Risk Higher at Highest, Lowest Salt Intake Levels Reference: Primary source: Journal of the American Medical Association Source reference: O’Donnell M, et al “Urinary sodium and potassium excretion and risk of cardiovascular events” JAMA2011; 306: 2229-2238. Additional source: Journal of…
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Salt reduction may not reduce risk of heart disease
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for July 6, 2011 [display_podcast] Source: Putting Down the Salt Shaker May Not Help Heart Reference: Primary source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Source reference: Taylor RS, et al “Reduced dietary salt for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (Review)” Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2011; DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009217. Additional source: American Journal of…
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Study shows low sodium levels increases heart disease risk as opposed to the thousands of others that show the opposite result
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 6, 2011 [display_podcast] Source: Low-sodium diet may not be helpful, study suggests Reference: JAMA: Fatal and Nonfatal Outcomes, Incidence of Hypertension, and Blood Pressure Changes in Relation to Urinary Sodium Excretion
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Where politics and salt science collide; food industry sets science policy
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for July 30, 2010 [display_podcast] Source: Food industry urged to pinch sodium from products Reference: Recommendations of the Sodium Working Group
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Processed meats associated with increased heart disease risk: Harvard study
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 18, 2010 [display_podcast] Source: A Guilt-Free Hamburger
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Avoiding the salt of the Earth
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 21, 2010 [display_podcast] Source: Half a teaspoon less salt a day could save 100,000 lives, study finds Reference: Projected Effect of Dietary Salt Reductions on Future Cardiovascular Disease
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Salt intake awareness campaign begins
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 20, 2009 Source: Give your head a shake