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Showing posts with label Johns Hopkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johns Hopkins. Show all posts
Monday, September 10, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
How to avoid hidden sodium - a Johns Hopkins dietitian walks through the aisles of a grocery store with you (video)
Join Johns Hopkins registered dietitian, Arielle Rosenberg, as she walks through the aisles and offers suggestions on how to lower salt intake -- but not compromise flavor.
Cutting U.S. salt intake by just half a teaspoon (3 grams) a day would prevent up to 92,000 deaths, 99,000 heart attacks, and 66,000 strokes -- a benefit as big as smoking cessation. A 3-gm per day reduction in salt (1,200 mg of sodium) will result in 6% fewer new cases of heart disease and 3% fewer deaths.
The average U.S. man gets about 10.4 grams a day and the average U.S. woman gets about 7.3 grams a day.
77% of the salt in the American diet comes from processed food. Only 6% is shaken out at the table, and only 5% is sprinkled during cooking.
Once people cut back on salt -- whether or not they know they are doing it -- they begin to prefer less salt in their food. This happens in a matter of weeks.
References:
"Cutting Salt as Good as Quitting Smoking"
Monday, April 12, 2010
Johns Hopkins Medicine podcast now has a blog
The weekly podcast by Johns Hopkins Medicine now has a blog hosted for free at Blogger.com by Google:http://hopkinspodblog.blogspot.com
I have been a regular listener for years and have found the podcast to be both educational and enjoyable - not a common combination.
The weekly podcast looks at the top medical stories of the week for people who want to become informed participants in their own health care. The presenters are Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange M.D., professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins and vice chairman of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
I have been a regular listener for years and have found the podcast to be both educational and enjoyable - not a common combination.
The weekly podcast looks at the top medical stories of the week for people who want to become informed participants in their own health care. The presenters are Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange M.D., professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins and vice chairman of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
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