...researchers estimate that if the average sodium intake fell to the recommended level of 2,300 mg per day, there would be 11 million fewer cases of high blood pressure each year. (Estimates are that about 70 million American adults have high blood pressure.) The costs of treating high blood pressure and related heart disease and strokes would fall by $18 billion.
Cutting sodium consumption down to 1,500 mg, they say, could save $26 billion.
So before we go spewing about how some group of Others costs the taxpayers money we didn't agree to spend, each of us oughtta check our diet. How many mg of sodium a day do you consume? Do you know? If not, why not?
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