Salt Matters: Preserving Choice, Protecting Health

Excessive salt intake has proven to be a major contributor to heart attack and stroke, the first and third leading causes of death in the United States. More than three-quarters of Americans' daily salt intake comes from foods consumed in restaurants and purchased in grocery stores. Our "Salt Matters: Preserving Choice, Protecting Health" video outlines ways to help Americans make healthier food choices with lower salt content.

Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/...

This video can also be viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/cdctv/SaltMatters5

• Category

  News & Politics

[Matthew Mitchell]

If you do not have salt, you will die. Well done for being against salt. If you are against salt, you are against life. We need it.

[kushasaures]

The science behind this video is psuedo-science at best... The key is not restricting salt, but never eating sodium chloride by itself... it should be eaten in it's natural form (sea salt with browns and greys), celtic sea salt contains over 80 different trace minerals and the ratio of minerals are very similar to the ratio in our blood. Western medicine is very flat earth, and these types of videos are very misleading, and their is far more evidence to support whole salt being very healthy.