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Cutting salt in our daily diet will save money and lives; we orientals tend to put too much salt in our dishes to add the taste; such as soy sauce, MSG, and all kind of preserved food. And we should all pay attention to it. 

New York City Meyer Mr. Blomberg announce to ask all the restaurant and food manufacturer to reduce the salt in the dishes and packages recently. 

I believe this is good way to save money and lives.  

Just read another article from NY Times as: 

After Smoking and Fats, Focus Turns to Salt

For you reference only.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/health/26brod.html?em

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Saving Money and Lives

In a scientific analysis published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco; Stanford University; and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons calculated that if Americans reduced their salt intake by half a teaspoon a day, or three grams (the equivalent of 1,200 milligrams of sodium, the health culprit in salt), the nation would save up to $24 billion a year in health care costs.
The research team, led by Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, an epidemiologist and biostatistician at U.C.S.F., concluded that even a much more modest reduction — one gram a day, achieved gradually by the year 2019 — “would be more cost-effective than using medications to lower blood pressure in all persons with hypertension.”

And money is not the only thing that would be saved. The researchers calculated that the half-teaspoon reduction would “reduce the annual number of new cases of coronary heart disease by 60,000 to 120,000, stroke by 32,000 to 66,000, and myocardial infarction [heart attack] by 54,000 to 99,000, and reduce the annual number of deaths from any cause by 44,000 to 92,000.”

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The following is some health food tips for you