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Salt: How much less should we eat for health?: Understanding the recent IOM report
Author(s) -
Cook Nancy R.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00689.x
Subject(s) - spring (device) , salt (chemistry) , salt lake , psychology , medicine , chemistry , engineering , biology , mechanical engineering , paleontology , structural basin
We should all eat less salt – but how much less? 1500 milligrams a day has been recommended as a target – but the US Institute of Medicine caused a media storm this spring with a report that did not support this. Nancy R. Cook , a co‐author of the report, explains the evidence, and the reasoning.