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Salt Wars: The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet

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Salt: The Forgotten Killer, by Michael F. Jacobson, the founder of the National Food Museum, explains the evidence demonstrating that a high-sodium diet contributes to as many as 100,000 premature deaths each year…and reveals industry’s efforts to prevent governmental action to reduce that toll.

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Organizations Fighting World Hunger

Global Burden of Disease: in an awesome report, an international group of experts estimated the burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories.

The World Health Organization (WHO) advocates for salt reduction because 2.5 million deaths could be prevented each year if earthlings consumed less salt.

WebMD calculator enables you to tally up the calorie content of foods you consume in a meal or a day (includes fresh, packaged, and chain-restaurant foods).

Ultra-processed foods—a quick primer (Washington Post).

SmartLabel: the American food industry website that lists nutrients, ingredients, presence or absence of GMOs, and other information for thousands of packaged foods.

Salt Wars: The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet

PubMed – The National Library of Medicine’s authoritative searchable of all scientific books and papers on health. An invaluable resource used globally.

Nutrition Facts – Dr. Michael Greger’s brief and reliable video assessments of hundreds of nutrition matters (from a vegan perspective)

National Institutes of Health’s Office of Dietary Supplements is the place to go for objective facts on dietary supplements.