There is nothing quite as annoying as unintended weight gain, especially if you don’t know why it’s happening. As it turns out weight gain can actually be a [...]
When you think of iodine—the chemical element that helps your body produce thyroid hormones and regulate energy—you probably associate it with table salt. That’s [...]
Americans eat too much salt. And that causes high blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes. Right? That’s been the message for the last several decades. But what if salt [...]
Sugar has been in the diet spotlight for years as an ingredient that’s linked to a torrent of health issues, but new research suggests that another common dietary [...]
From a public health perspective, salt shakers have been branded the equivalent of an ash tray, an instrument of ill health. Achtung baby. But a large study published [...]
In a new study, salt made people eat 11% more food and calories. You might think fatty foods are delicious, but fat alone isn’t actually very appetizing. (The true taste of [...]
There’s a sodium bomb in your milkshake! Salt has never looked so scary: a little white shaker surrounded by a forbidding black triangle. That’s the symbol diners [...]
Americans eat, on average, more than 3,400 milligrams of sodium each day — much more than the 2,300-mg current recommended limit for many people. But whether this amount [...]
According to the men’s health website, Details.com, in a post widely reported in Business Insider, these five foods can contribute to erectile dysfunction (ED) and other [...]