Tag: salt consumption

Can we use seaweed instead of salt?

We consume too much sodium chloride, common table salt, for our own good. But European researchers are closing in on a solution that could improve public health. It grows along the shore.

Salt is worse than tobacco

If we start consuming less salt we can save more lives than if we quit smoking, according to a Danish researcher. Three grams less salt per day per person can save about a thousand Norwegian lives and hundreds of millions of dollars a year.