New York – Nine Americans out of 10 eat too much salt, many of them more than twice as much as necessary. The consumption amounts to 3,466 mg against the advised amount of 2,300 mg.
The threshold might be lowered to 1,500 mg by the FDA. This is the outcome of the research of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. 77% of the salt consumption comes from pizzas, meat and cookies.
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