sodium
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Nutrition & Food
Scientists Measured the Salt in 39 Takeaways. Nearly Half Had More Than the Label Claimed.
Chemists at the University of Reading ran 39 takeaway dishes through a mass spectrometer. Almost half the labeled ones held more salt than the menu admitted, and one pasta dish carried nearly two days' worth.
Nutrition & Food8,300 Brazilian elders, one saltshaker, and the 80 percent of sodium nobody mentions
A Frontiers in Public Health survey of 8,336 Brazilians over 60 found older men reach for the saltshaker most. Buried in the same paper: the shaker only accounts for 6 to 20 percent of total sodium. The other 70-plus percent already arrived from the factory.