 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
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DIET & SLIMMING: BODYWORKS - SALT 'N QUAKE; Could you be heading for a ready-made heart attack?(Features)
Sunday Mirror (London, England); 2/22/2004; 787 words
; Byline: Tricia Welch SALT is a killer and yet nine out of 10 of us continue to eat too much. Overindulging in salt can cause high blood pressure, heart disease ... asthma. Most of us have no idea how much salt we should be eating - or are aware of the ...
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Crystal clear The dynamic textures and flavors of coarse salts are shaking up the most ordinary foods; A few kinds of salt Salt used on food must be at least 97.5% sodium chloride; most table salt is nearly 99%. Kitchen salts include: Table salt, sometimes called iodized salt: The common salt used in most households. Shaped like tiny cubes, table salt is finely ground and mixed with calcium silicate to prevent caking or clumping. Table salt can be mined or it can be a sea salt. Kosher salt: Coarse, flaky salt used by many food professionals. Shaped like tiny pyramids, it's used on pretzels and on the rim of margarita glasses, as well as for curing meat and fish. Sea salt: Made of evaporated seawater that's been purified, it can be coarse or fine. Trace amounts of minerals such as potassium make it a favorite of health-food fans. Rock salt: Not edible; used for freezing ice cream.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/6/1997; TERESA GUBBINS; 787 words
; Salt. What's there to say? You sprinkle the tiny granules on your food. Follow with a little ground pepper, and dive in. It makes things taste "better." End of story, right? Let's start over this time not with regular table salt but the "coarse" salt, bigger than a sesame seed. It adds not only flavor but ...
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With a Grain of Salt
The Washington Post; 7/19/1995; Olga Boikess; 787 words
; Salt has gotten such a bad rap for contributing to high blood ... I'm still hooked -- indeed, I believe food cooked without salt is an insipid waste of good ingredients -- I decided to find ... the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. 1. Isn't salt simply one of many possible flavor boosters? One ...
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Salt
Mining Engineering; 6/1/1997; Bertram, B M; 787 words
; Salt (NaCl) is an abundant, low-cost commodity with many uses (Kaufmann,1960, reports more than 14,000). The Salt Institute categorizes sales of dry salt into five major end uses: highway deicing, chemical, water conditioning, agriculture and food grade ...
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Facts and ideas from anywhere.(From the Editor)(Salt, Diet and Health: Neptune's Poisoned Chalice: The Origins of High Blood Pressure.)(third report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood cholesterol in adults.)(Editorial)
Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings; 7/1/2001; Roberts, William Clifford; 787 words
; SALT AND BLOOD PRESSURE A number of years ago, I covered my food with a heavy dose of salt before taking a single bite. After a while, my blood pressure began to rise, and I considered how foolish I was to add salt to my food at the table. I stopped adding salt abruptly ...
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A guide to proper salt storage.
Public Works; 4/1/1992; 787 words
; SALT has been used since the 1940s as a major weapon in combatting ice and snow on streets and highways. Salt is readily available, inexpensive, easy to store and handle ... harmless to the environment when used and stored properly. Salt is abundant, but getting it to its destination on time is ...
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A vital ingredient . . . but salt could be poisoning us
Evening Times; 10/1/2005; Ann Fotheringham; 787 words
; SALT is back in the news as the Food Standards Agency begins its second campaign to highlight the dangers of too much of the saline stuff. Nearly a year has passed since the FSA hit the headlines with claims that too much salt can raise blood pressure, and triple the risk of heart disease and stroke. But ...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Salt: the hidden peril; Experts warn that we should have no more than a teaspoon of salt a day. Yet most of us are overdosing on the stuff without even realising it Health&Fitness.
The Evening Standard (London, England); 11/11/2003; 787 words
; Byline: ANGELA DOWDEN HIGH-salt foods and snacks laden with fat and sugar ... told to set a target date for cutting salt in their products, and the FSA is proposing ... it's still all too easy to overdose on salt without realising it. The Government's ...
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SALT
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA; 11/9/2005; ROBERTA STRICKLER; 787 words
; Salt a talented mineral cooks protein without heat, extends the shelf life of commercial food, and preserves meat. Salt decreases bitterness, enhances sweetness and keeps bread ... cooked vegetables and it holds hot dogs together. What's more, salt is inexpensive, concluded Linda Kragt when she listed all ...
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Living Without Salt?(value of salt in diet)(Statistical Data Included)
World and I; 4/1/2001; Trankina, Michele L.; 787 words
; Salt in the diet is a two-edged sword--we can't live without it ... the shiny white crystalline substance we know as common salt is a usual food flavoring. But over the course of thousands ... high blood pressure. Yet the impossibility of living without salt has been recognized for at least as long. Nowadays, ...
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