7/27/2023 0 Comments Salt iron wars![]() ![]() According to an unpublicized government memo that Jacobson obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the Department of Health and Human Services estimated that the economic value of longer, healthier lives from lowering sodium consumption to about the recommended level would be $3.6 trillion over 20 years. Their success has led to about $20 billion in unnecessary health-care costs and about 100,000 deaths per year due to preventable high blood pressure, heart attacks, and strokes. In Salt Wars, Jacobson explains how the food industry and a small group of scientists questioning the science of salt have successfully fought government efforts over the decades to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food. It both lays out a path to reduce sodium, mostly from salt, in the food supply to safe levels and, in the absence of action by government and industry, to enable consumers to cut salt on their own. Salt Wars: The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet, will be published by the MIT Press on October 20. Jacobson, Ph.D., the co-founder and former executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The story behind the staggering-and deadly-salt content in America’s processed and restaurant food, and our policymakers’ failure to curb it, is the subject of a new book by Michael F.
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