CNN Video: Spices are Good for You

Herbs and spices can function as salt alternatives to make food more palatable and help you cut back on sodium.

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Salt substitutes deserve a place at the table. Herbs, spices, potassium chloride, and other salt alternatives can help you cut back on sodium. Harv Heart Lett. 2006 Dec;17(4):4. No abstract available.
Health benefits of herbs and spices: the past, the present, the future. Tapsell LC, Hemphill I, Cobiac L, Patch CS, Sullivan DR, Fenech M, Roodenrys S, Keogh JB, Clifton PM, Williams PG, Fazio VA, Inge KE. Med J Aust. 2006 Aug 21;185(4 Suppl):S4-24. Review.