Excess sodium intake linked to 1.65 million deaths annually
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
Across the world, the excessive consumption of sodium--hiding in breads, soups and snack foods and beckoning from salt shakers everywhere--is the cause of some 1.65 million deaths by heart disease and strokes yearly, including roughly 667,000 "premature" deaths--those before the age of 70--says...