Lowering Soft Drink Consumption By Reducing Kids’ Salt Intake May Cut Obesity:
Children who eat less salt, drink fewer sugar-sweetened soft drinks and significantly lowering their risks for obesity, elevated blood pressure and later-in-life heart attack and stroke, researchers reported in the print and online issue of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. Previous studies have shown that high dietary salt intake increases fluid consumption in adults, but this is the first time it’s been shown to affect children.
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