How food industry lobbyists and a small group of scientists have
successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels
of sodium in our food.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. Despite
an abundance of research going back more than half a century
showing that high-sodium diets lead to hypertension and other ills,
a few scientists argue the opposite--that American consume a
healthy amount of salt and that eating less would increase the risk
of cardiovascular disease. This "man bites dog" take on sodium
confused consumers and was enthusiastically taken up by food
industry lobbyists. Jacobson, a salt wars combatant for more than
forty years, explains what science actually says about salt intake
and rebuts "sodium skeptics." He discusses what other countries are
doing to cut dietary salt, and describes some recent victories in
the United States. He advises readers how to reduce salt--warning
them against "salt bombs" (Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup, for
example, packs an entire day's worth of sodium in one can)--and
calls on them to suit up for the next battle in the salt wars.
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