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This Sliding Bar can be switched on or off in theme options, and can take any widget you throw at it or even fill it with your custom HTML Code. Its perfect for grabbing the attention of your viewers. Choose between 1, 2, 3 or 4 columns, set the background color, widget divider color, activate transparency, a top border or fully disable it on desktop and mobile.

Food related

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Send a loud and clear message!

By | July 2, 2016|Categories: Food related|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Although there is a push by the FDA and other health organizations to reduce sodium in processed foods, manufacturers have been opposed to it. They contend that low-sodium products often don't fare well in the marketplace. Taste is the main reason people buy a particular product and when salt is removed, consumers react negatively to the [...]

FDA to Reduce Sodium in Prepared Foods

By | June 1, 2016|Categories: Food related|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

FDA asking food manufacturers and restaurants to voluntarily lower the amount of sodium in their products and prepared food.  At least 70% of the sodium we consume comes from processed foods, making it difficult for consumers to lower their salt intake. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance for public comment that provides practical, voluntary [...]

Americans Exceed Recommended Sodium Intake

By | January 8, 2016|Categories: Food related|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Hypertension, a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, occurs among 29% of U.S. adults, and lowering excess sodium intake can reduce blood pressure. Eighty-nine percent of adults and over 90% of children exceeded recommendations for sodium intake. Among hypertensive adults, 86% exceeded 2,300 mg dietary sodium per day. To address the high prevalence of excess sodium consumption [...]

The Preventable Epidemic

By | September 26, 2014|Categories: Food related, Health related|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

If you think hypertension, or high blood pressure, is of no concern to you, think again. Nearly one-fourth of all adults − 50 million − have hypertension and another 45 million are considered prehypertensive (at risk of developing high blood pressure). Even more alarming, at the rate we're going, 9 out of 10 middle-aged Americans face the threat [...]

Finland Success at Reducing Salt

By | March 18, 2013|Categories: Food related|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Since Finland’s campaign in the early 1970s to reduce salt intake, daily consumption has dropped by 3,000 mg a day in men and women, with a corresponding decline in death rates from stroke and coronary heart disease of 75 to 80 percent. New England Journal of Medicine

Salt Reduction Can Save Lives

By | December 12, 2012|Categories: Food related|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A small, steady reduction of sodium in the American diet could save up to 500,000 lives over the next decade. A more rapid reduction could save even more lives – as many as 850,000. Hypertension