CDC Finds Salt Not A Health Hazard

(Atlanta, Georgia)

A recent report commissioned by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reviewed the health benefits of reducing salt intake and the take-home message is that salt, in the quantities consumed by most Americans, is no longer considered a substantial health hazard.

What the CDC study reported explicitly is that there is no benefit, and may be a danger, from reducing our salt intake below 1 tsp per day. What was absent about the report was is the difference between healthy mineral salts and iodized table salt. [emphasis added]

It may be that we’re better off with more salt than less, up to 2 or even 3 tsp per day.

Dozens of studies were analyzed.