Salt wars : the battle over the biggest killer in the American diet / Michael F. Jacobson ; foreword by Tom Frieden
By: Jacobson, Michael F [author].
Contributor(s): Frieden, Tom [writer of foreword].
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, ©2020Description: xviii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262542821.Subject(s): Salt-free diet | Salt in the body | Salt -- Physiological effect | Nutrition policy -- United States | Sodium Chloride, Dietary -- adverse effects | Diet -- trends | Nutrition Policy | United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RM237.8 .J33 2020 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000018084 |
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"Written by Michael Jacobson, Ph.D., one of the most prominent advocates for sodium reduction since the 1970s, this book is a clarion call for radical change in America's relationship to salt"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references and index
Salt, a Primer -- The Case for Eating Less Salt -- The Case Against Eating Less Salt -- What All the Research Means -- The Mouse that Roared : The Salt Institute -- Less Salty Diets Around the Globe -- Policy Paralysis in the United States -- Progress at Last! -- Next Steps for Progress -- Protecting Your Own Health
"A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have linked it to high blood pressure, strokes, and heart attacks. It's been estimated that excess sodium in the American diet causes as many as 100,000 deaths deaths and many billions of dollars in avoidable health-care costs each year. And yet salt is everywhere in our diets--in packaged foods, fast foods, and especially meals at table-service restaurants. Why hasn't salt received the sort of public attention and regulatory action that sugar and fat have? In Salt Wars, Michael Jacobson explains how the American food industry and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food."--