New Study Challenges Wisdom of Low-Salt Diets

For years, health officials have warned that eating too much sodium can raise blood pressure to unsafe levels and increase the risk of heart attack or stroke, however, the results of a new study seem to suggest that, for some, the opposite may be true. The eight-year study, which followed 3,681 healthy European men and women age 60 or younger, found that those who consumed the least salt had a 56 percent higher risk of death from a heart attack or stroke compared with those who had the highest

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