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Salty And Saltier: Fast Food Chains Keep Adding More Salt To Your Food - Forbes
High blood pressure is one of the biggest health problems in the U.S. today. The CDC estimates that 75 million American adults, about one-third of the adult population, has high blood pressure. Even more alarming is that high blood pressure "was a primary or contributing cause of death for more than 410,000 Americans in 2014," the last year for which the CDC reports data.
One of the main causes of high blood pressure (a.k.a. hypertension) is too much salt in the diet. As Americans have eaten out more and more, they've grown less aware over how much salt goes into their foods. Salt is tasty but invisible: you can't know exactly how much salt is in your food if you didn't prepare it yourself.
Everyone knows that fast foods can be salty, especially those (like French fries) that have salt sprinkled all over them. What they don't know, though, is that over the past 30 years, the amount of salt in fast foods has increased dramatically, as revealed in a new study just published by Megan McCrory and colleagues at Boston University.
High blood pressure is one of the biggest health problems in the U.S. today. The CDC estimates that 75 million American adults, about one-third of the adult population, has high blood pressure. Even more alarming is that high blood pressure "was a primary or contributing cause of death for more than 410,000 Americans in 2014," the last year for which the CDC reports data.
One of the main causes of high blood pressure (a.k.a. hypertension) is too much salt in the diet. As Americans have eaten out more and more, they've grown less aware over how much salt goes into their foods. Salt is tasty but invisible: you can't know exactly how much salt is in your food if you didn't prepare it yourself.
Everyone knows that fast foods can be salty, especially those (like French fries) that have salt sprinkled all over them. What they don't know, though, is that over the past 30 years, the amount of salt in fast foods has increased dramatically, as revealed in a new study just published by Megan McCrory and colleagues at Boston University.