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Despite warnings about the risk, Americans have not reduced the salt in their diets in 50 years, Harvard School of Public Health researchers conclude.
Using data gathered in 38 studies between 1957 and 2003, Adam Bernstein and Walter Willett analyzed urine samples from more than 26,000 people. Unlike previous research that estimated salt consumption by comparing eating diaries to the salt content in particular foods, the urine samples allow researchers to measure the sodium excreted by the body, which is reliably about 95 percent of what is consumed.
“It’s a more accurate reflection of how much salt or sodium we are taking in rather than having to refer to food data bases,” Bernstein told Reuters Health.
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