Get Up And Do Something: Where salt is lurking on restaurant menus

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Where salt is lurking on restaurant menus Jan 13th 2013, 11:15 American adults eat in restaurants an average of five times a week—which means they probably eat way too much salt. Even fine-dining menus offer little escape from sodium overload. Starting with the bread and salad and ending with the final plate of tiny cookies, many of restaurants' least salty-seeming options are significant sources of dietary salt. The desire to limit salt isn't just for heart-attack patients. Some 90 percent of Americans will have to contend with high blood pressure in their lifetimes, so it is important for almost everyone to limit their sodium intake, says Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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