Actually, the salt in your morning Cheerios is worse for you than what you shake on your baked potato. Check out my latest article, Salt Sense: Spare the salt, spare the heart, to hear what researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) at Houston School of Public Health have to say on the matter. The article comes on the heels of new federal guidelines for salt consumption. “It is a challenge to stay within the recommendations,” says researcher Alanna Morrison, PhD, “If you go through your refrigerator or your pantry, things like the cereal that you feed your children or pasta, foods that you think are healthy—they all have salt in them. As consumers we really can’t get away from salt because it is in everything.”
Nearly three-quarters of the salt Americans eat comes from processed foods, she adds. Yikes.