Ninety percent of Americans eat too much salt every day, and the top food offenders include cheeseburgers, pizza, bread, deli meat and potato chips, US health officials said on Tuesday. The average American eats about 3,300 milligrams of sodium per day, and that does not include salt added from the shaker on the table, said [...]
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February 8, 2012
February 8, 2012
New diet: Top off breakfast with — chocolate cake?
ScienceDaily (Feb. 7, 2012) When it comes to diets, cookies and cake are off the menu. Now, in a surprising discovery, researchers from Tel Aviv University have found that dessert, as part of a balanced 600-calorie breakfast that also includes proteins and carbohydrates, can help dieters to lose more weight — and keep it [...]
February 8, 2012
CDC: Breads top list of salt sources in US diet
ATLANTA (AP) — Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as snacks like potato chips and pretzels. That surprising finding comes in a government report released Tuesday that includes a list of the top 10 sources of sodium. Salty snacks [...]
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