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As sea levels rise, increasing amounts of salt water are leaking into freshwater supplies worldwide.
While instant noodles offer comfort and familiarity, their nutritional profile has room for improvement. You can upgrade your bowl with a few easy additions.
Two litres of tap water in the regional New South Wales town of Walgett has as much sodium as an entire large bag of sea salt popcorn.
New policy requiring front-of-package nutrition symbols aims to guide consumers toward healthier food choices by highlighting foods high in sodium, sugars or saturated fats.
It’s a positive step, but there will be a few challenges to realising the full benefits to public health.
Salt and MSG are two well-known food additives. Both contain sodium, but there are plenty of differences you can use to your benefit.
A simple switch from regular salt to salt substitute alternatives will help reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke and kidney disease. It would also provide much-needed health expenditure savings.
Salt is an essential nutrient that has helped civilizations flavor and preserve their foods for millennia. Too much dietary salt, however, is linked to a host of health problems.
Western Australia has introduced a limit on ham in school canteens. Here’s what has changed and the evidence it’s based on.
A new study questions whether current global salt limits are too low. But don’t reach for the salt just yet – the guidelines are unlikely to change any time soon.
The spread of tawny crazy ants may be driven, in part, by their need for calcium. The calcium-rich limestone bedrock of the lower U.S. Midwest may provide ideal conditions for populations to explode.
A recent research study found that cheese reduced insulin resistance in prediabetic rat models.
If you are intimidated by the periodic table, then this introduction through the first column of elements will give you a feel for how and why the elements are arranged in this order.
In Rwanda gorillas have been leaving protected areas to raid sodium rich crops.
South Africa needs to continue public awareness campaigns to reduce excessive salt intake to protect cardiovascular health.
Most men, women and children in Canada exceed the tolerable upper limits of salt for their bodies. Consumers need to understand how much salt is too much – to avoid hypertension and heart disease.
Evidence suggests that most Americans wildly underestimate the amount of sodium in their food.
Alternative technologies are already leaving Tesla’s batteries in the slow lane.
Around 60% of Australians over the age of two years exceeded the recommended daily maximum intake of salt.
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