Salt Wars: The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet

by Michael Jacobson and Michael F. Jacobson

Book Overview

How food industry lobbyists and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food.

A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have linked it to high blood pressure, strokes, and heart attacks. It's been estimated that excess sodium in the American diet causes as many as 100,000 deaths deaths and many billions of dollars in avoidable health-care costs each year. And yet salt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262044447
• ISBN13: 9780262044448
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.1"