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Adults Worldwide Eat Almost Double Daily Recommended Amount of Sodium
Adults worldwide consume
almost double the daily
recommended amount of sodium
(salt). The study is among
the first to provide
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Jupiter's Icy Moon: Window Into Europa's Ocean Lies Right at the Surface
If you could lick the
surface of Jupiter's icy
moon Europa, you would
actually be sampling a bit
of the ocean beneath,
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Scientists Discover How Animals Taste, and Avoid, High Salt Concentrations
Researchers have discovered
how the tongue detects high
concentrations of salt, the
first step in a
salt-avoiding behavior
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Origin of Life: Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics
A coherent pathway -- which
starts from no more than
rocks, water and carbon
dioxide and leads to the
emergence of the strange
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- Adults Worldwide Eat Almost Double Daily Recommended Amount of Sodium
- Jupiter's Icy Moon: Window Into Europa's Ocean Lies Right at the Surface
- Scientists Discover How Animals Taste, and Avoid, High Salt Concentrations
- Origin of Life: Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics
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Studies Support Population-Based Efforts to Lower Excessive Dietary Sodium Intakes
May 14, 2013 — Recent studies that examine links between sodium consumption and health outcomes support recommendations to lower sodium intake from the very high levels some Americans consume now, but evidence from ... > full story -
Salt Levels in Food Still Dangerously High
May 13, 2013 — The dangerously high salt levels in processed food and fast food remain unchanged, despite numerous calls from health agencies for the food industry to voluntarily reduce sodium. Excess sodium in the ... > full story -
Tell Me Where You're from and I'll Tell You What Tastes You Prefer
April 18, 2013 — The country of residence is a fundamental factor in taste preferences. Children love fatty and sugary foods. Or do they? New research contradicts the idea that all children under the age of ten have ... > full story -
Reducing Salt and Increasing Potassium Will Have Major Global Health Benefits
April 5, 2013 — Cutting down on salt and, at the same time, increasing levels of potassium in our diet will have major health and cost benefits across the world, according to new ... > full story -
America: Time to Shake the Salt Habit?
March 28, 2013 — Medical researchers have written a review paper summarizing data linking excessive sodium intake to increased rates of hypertension, stroke and cardiovascular disease. Is it time for national ... > full story -
Most Pre-Packaged Meals, Snacks for Toddlers Contain Too Much Salt
March 21, 2013 — Most pre-packaged meals and snacks for toddlers contain high amounts of sodium. Some toddler meals had as much as 630 mg of sodium per ... > full story -
Eating Too Much Salt Led to 2.3 Million Heart-Related Deaths Worldwide in 2010
March 21, 2013 — Excessive sodium (salt) consumption caused 2.3 million heart-related deaths in the world in 2010. Nearly 1 million of these deaths occurred in people 69 years and ... > full story -
Women's Iron Intake May Help to Protect Against PMS
February 26, 2013 — In one of the first studies to evaluate whether dietary mineral intake is associated with PMS development, medical researchers assessed mineral intake in approximately 3,000 women in a case-control ... > full story -
Reducing Sodium in U.S. May Save Hundreds of Thousands of Lives Over 10 Years
February 11, 2013 — Less sodium in the U.S. diet could save 280,000 to 500,000 lives over 10 years, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal ... > full story -
New Insights Into the Mechanics of Muscle Fatigue
January 17, 2013 — A new study examines the consequences of muscle activity with surprising results, indicating that the extracellular accumulation of potassium that occurs in working muscles is considerably higher ... > full story
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