Health Piece
Now, a ‘food czar’
by OffSite (9/28/09)
Rand Corp researchers estimate that if the average sodium intake fell to the recommended level of 2,300 mg per day, there would be 11 million fewer cases of high blood pressure each year. … The costs of treating high blood pressure and related heart disease and strokes would fall by $18 billion. Cutting sodium consumption down to 1,500 mg, they say, could save $26 billion. - Reuters Health news
“We’re happy to have the Rand Corporation confirm our own findings,” said Dr. Howard Bashford, M.D., Ph.D., LLD., executive director of North Dakota’s famed Bashford Institute. “We’ve been studying the inimical effects of excess sodium for many years.” Full Piece
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