Reducing your daily salt intake can help support your blood pressure and overall heart health. Eating too much salt can cause your body to retain extra water, which increases blood pressure. Most ...

Merve Ceylan is a dietitian and health writer with four years of experience writing for companies in the nutrition and health industry. Eating less salt can reduce blood pressure and the risk of heart ...

Spicy foods might not only add oomph to your meals, but they may be giving your health a boost, too. A recent study published in the American Heart Association's journal "Hypertension" found people ...

“Put down the salt shaker and back away from the table. And don’t even think about going for the chips.” Those are lines you may hear on a TV police drama of the future, when the federal drive to curb ...

Eating less salt can reduce blood pressure and the risk of heart disease and strokes, especially in people with salt sensitivity. You can reduce salt intake by removing salt from the table, using ...

Here’s the thing most people get wrong about low sodium eating: they focus on what they can’t have instead of understanding how their body actually works. The average American eats five or more ...

Americans may have to get used to life with less salt, as the FDA is drafting voluntary guidelines for the food industry to lower sodium levels in food. As the Associated Press’ Mary Clare Jalonick ...

If you were asked what you could do to live a long and healthy life, what would you say? Most likely, you would mention eating well, exercising, limiting alcohol intake, avoiding smoking and illicit ...