Cardiac and pulmonary wellness dietitian Sheri Gaw tells Yahoo LIfe that “salt alternatives are especially helpful for people ...

Swapping regular salt for salt substitutes may reduce the risk of recurrent stroke and death. In a recent study, compared to ...

The key advantage of switching rather than cutting salt intake is that potassium-enriched salt can be used as a direct ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the adoption of Lower Sodium Salt Substitutes (LSSS) to address the global rise in hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and strokes linked to ...

Let’s get one thing out of the way: Salt and sodium are not the same. Usually when you hear about salt or sodium, the words tend to be tossed around interchangeably, which can be confusing at ...

Road salt is made up of two minerals: sodium and chloride. Too much of either can cause problems for people, communities, wildlife and ecosystems. Excess sodium in drinking water can elevate ...

The Washington state House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at outlawing a poison that dozens of young people have used ...

The salt used on the road is often the same salt that people have at the dinner table, said Smit: sodium chloride. Salt helps to lower water's freezing temperature, meaning that it prevents ice ...

A groundbreaking imaging method for tracking salt inside plant cells has rewritten knowledge of how roots handle toxic levels of sodium ions. The findings might aid efforts to boost plant ...