The present study is the first to evaluate … a comprehensive lifestyle intervention that included a low-fat, whole-foods, plant-based diet, exercise, stress management, and group support meetings …. At 3 months, significant changes in diet with a reduction in calories, protein, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and so-dium intake and an increase in carbohydrates, fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, and iron were observed
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Mattes et al. (1991) Relative contributions of dietary sodium sources
The present study quantified the contributions of inherently food-borne, processing-added, table, cooking, and water sources …. Na added during processing contributed 77% of total intake, 11.6% was derived from Na inherent to food, and water was a trivial source. The observed table (6.2%) and cooking (5.1%)
Jacobson, M. F. (2005). Salt: The forgotten killer … And FDA’s failure to protect the public’s health
A diet high in salt (sodium chloride) is a major cause of heart disease and stroke …. Reducing salt consumption is one of the single most effective ways to prevent heart disease and strokes …. The vast majority—about 77 percent—of sodium comes from processed foods and foods eaten outside the home …. Reducing sodium consumption by half would save an estimated 150,000 lives per year. That in turn would reduce medical care and other costs by roughly $1.5 trillion over 20 years
Flegel et al. (2009) Get excess salt out of our diet
Added salt in our diet isn’t necessary …. Once a commodity of exchange, salt is now a commodity of disease and death. We underestimate how much excess salt we eat and how much harm it can do. The greatest harm comes from high blood pressure and its consequences. Of the estimated 1 billion people living with hypertension, about 30% can attribute it to excess salt intake. Salt-related blood pressure elevation accounts for about 14% of strokes and 9% of myocardial infarctions.
Danaei et. al. (2009) The preventable causes of death in the United States: comparative risk assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors
“estimate the mortality effects of the following 12 modifiable dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors …. tobacco smoking and high blood pressure were responsible for an estimated 467,000 … and 395,000 deaths, accounting for about one in five or six deaths in US adults. Overweight–obesity (216,000) and physical inactivity (191,000) were each responsible for nearly 1 in 10 deaths. High dietary salt (102,000), low dietary omega-3 fatty acids (84,000), and high dietary trans fatty acids (82,000).”
