{"id":725359,"date":"2010-04-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/reducing_salt_intake"},"modified":"2010-04-27T17:50:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T21:50:28","slug":"reducing-salt-intake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/725359","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Salt Intake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer I met up with a friend to enjoy a plate of chips and salsa. While chatting, she proceeded to get a little crazy with <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 278px; HEIGHT: 354px\" height=\"354\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/salt%20shaker.jpg?resize=278%2C354\" width=\"278\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" \/>the salt shaker. I looked at her like she was nuts, &quot;Care&nbsp;to have&nbsp;some chips with your salt?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>While I rarely ADD additional salt to my food, most of what we buy is already loaded with it. This is why the Institute of Medicine has recommended that the FDA <a title=\"cut back\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/news\/fullstory_97826.html\">take measures to cut back<\/a> the levels of salt that manufacturers add to foods. <\/p>\n<p>While no official plan is in tact, the <a title=\"FDA\" href=\"http:\/\/answers.usa.gov\/cgi-bin\/gsa_ict.cfg\/php\/enduser\/std_adp.php?p_faqid=4319&amp;p_created=1107556532&amp;p\">FDA <\/a>says it plans to slowly but surely reduce the amount of sodium in foods by using a stepwise and monitored process as to not drastically change the flavoring of the food. <\/p>\n<p>The recommended maximum daily intake of sodium for the average adult is about a tablespoon, or 2,300 milligrams. Americans consume about 3,400 milligrams per day.<\/p>\n<p>This over-consumption is a leading contributor to <a title=\"hypertension\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pueblo.gsa.gov\/cic_text\/health\/hbp\/hypertension.htm\">hypertension<\/a> and <a title=\"heart disease\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pueblo.gsa.gov\/cic_text\/health\/heartdisease\/heart.htm\">heart disease<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>What do you think about reducing sodium in packaged foods and restaurants? How do you monitor your salt intake? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer I met up with a friend to enjoy a plate of chips and salsa. While chatting, she proceeded to get a little crazy with the salt shaker. I looked at her like she was nuts, &quot;Care&nbsp;to have&nbsp;some chips with your salt?&quot; While I rarely ADD additional salt to my food, most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32Hl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}