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NEWS ABOUT: salt

salt stories: 15 news summaries

(Newser) - A consumer activist group is taking Denny's to court over the "dangerously high" salt levels in the restaurant chain's food, Reuters reports. The suit, filed on behalf of a New Jersey man with high blood pressure, seeks to require Denny's to list the sodium content of its food on... More »

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diet • restaurant • salt • sodium • Denny's • restaurant chain

INTERVIEW

 Why Our Brains Want 
 What's Bad for Us 


Apr 30, 09 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former Food and Drug Administration chief David Kessler thinks Americans are victims of “conditioned hyper-eating,” and he’s written a book about it: The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. The Wall Street Journal poked him for some answers about how food can “... More »

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obesity • FDA • fat • fast food industry • sugar • overeating • salt • Food and Drug Administration • David Kessler

(Newser) - Most Americans eat way too much salt, and people with salt-sensitive medical conditions consume twice as much as they should, Scientific American reports. The American average is 3,456 milligrams per day. The FDA guideline for someone not at risk is 2,300 milligrams, or one teaspoon. For... More »

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FDA • hypertension • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • heart disease • consumption • stroke • salt

Finally, It's a
Cleaning Fluid
You Can Drink

Electrolyzed water washes, degreases, cures athlete's foot

Feb 23, 09 8:58 AM CST
(Newser) - In essence, it’s salt water, but a new drinkable cleaning fluid has been deemed a “miracle liquid,” the Los Angeles Times reports. So-called electrolyzed water is the result of sending current through a mixture of table salt and water. The cleaner, degreaser, and athlete’s foot cure... More »

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water • cleaning • salt • electrolyzed water


 Short on Salt, 
 Towns Turn 
 to Molasses 

As salt costs double, alternative deicers hit the pavement

Jan 2, 09 8:45 AM CST
(Newser) - With the weather outside frightful and rock-salt prices spiking, communities across the country are experimenting with new concoctions for melting snow and ice on roadways, the Wall Street Journal reports, adding molasses, ash, and garlic salt to deicers. The price of salt generally surges after the New Year as communities... More »

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salt • ice storm • snow • Snowstorm • winter weather • commodity prices • icy roads

 Salt Deficit May 
 Make This Scary 

States order massive amounts of salt, pinching other areas

Nov 16, 08 5:41 PM CST
(Newser) - City officials in the Midwest are struggling to prepare for another season of heavy snowfall as road salt supplies drop and prices surge, the Los Angeles Times reports. High demand and once-high gas charges have boosted salt prices, but the spike from $40 to $140 per ton seems exorbitant to... More »

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price fixing • gas prices • winter • salt • snow • road safety

Doctors See Rise in Kids With Kidney Stones

Salty foods, lack of water, and obesity
may be at fault

Oct 28, 08 1:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Once associated with middle age, kidney stones are growing more common among US children, the New York Times reports. A few decades ago, physicians would “see a kid with a stone once every few months,” says one doctor. “Now we see kids once a week or less.... More »

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health • melamine • children • soda • children's health care • drinking water • salt • sodium • kidney stones

States Fret as Road Salt Grows Scarce, Pricey

Last year's winter depleted reserves

Oct 6, 08 3:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Road salt is stressing state and municipal budgets as shortages drive prices up well past what local governments have paid in the past, USA Today reports. A harsh winter last year left many states with no salt reserves to carry over, meaning they have to fully restock at inflated prices.... More »

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New Hampshire • Ohio • road budget • infrastructure • ice • winter • salt • state spending • state governments • budgets • city government • local politics

Opinion

We Live in a Time of Bacon—
Resistance Is Futile

Spray-on variety a bit much, but writer thinks meat can't ever get too full of itself

Jul 10, 08 8:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Everywhere Peter Meehan looks, he sees bacon. Fatty, salty, bombastic, and blissfully delicious bacon. The Salon writer tries to figure out "where we are in the bacon bonanza"—he cites bacon spray, scented candles, trendy recipes, even a bacon-of-the-month club—and reaches out to experts "to see... More »

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junk food • fast food industry • salt • cocktails • food industry • pork • bacon

 Mars Lander Finds Ice... or Salt 

Scientist debate mysterious white substance

Jun 17, 08 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Phoenix Mars lander has found… well, something. While digging a pair of trenches on the Red Planet’s North Pole, the little robot sent back images of soil streaked with something white. Now scientists are wondering whether it’s the ice they’d hoped for, a salt deposit, or... More »

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NASA • Phoenix Mars Lander • ice • salt

 Mars Through a Microscope 

Phoenix takes unprecedented Mars shots

Jun 6, 08 7:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first high-resolution images of another planet's dirt and sand in its continued quest for signs of life in the planet's polar region. The microscopic particles were kicked up when the lander touched down and collected  on a slide, Reuters reports. Scientists note that... More »

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NASA • Mars • Phoenix Mars Lander • robotic arm • ice • salt • Jet Propulsion Laboratory • mineral

Icy Roads?
Beet Juice Just the Right Tonic

New mixture cuts salt, works colder, but side effects still unknown

Mar 14, 08 6:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Road workers in the Chicago area are shaking up their winter ice-busting cocktail with an odd new mixer: beet juice. Sanitation officials are pleased with the combination, which reduces the necessary rock salt (harmful to plants and water supplies) by up to 30% and is effective at temperatures far lower... More »

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Chicago • roadways • Illinois • ice • winter travel • salt • road safety • winter storms • beet

Mars Was Too Salty for Life

Rock analysis shows even microbes couldn't have survived in planet's early history

Feb 16, 08 7:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Hopes that Mars may once have supported life have taken a blow with the discovery that the planet has been too salty for life for much of its history, the BBC reports. "It was salty enough that only a handful of known terrestrial organisms would have a ghost of... More »

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NASA • Mars • rover • extraterrestrial life • microbe • salt

Not Sweet, nor Salty: 'Umami'

Chefs and Campbell's alike seek coveted, satisfying 'fifth taste'

Dec 9, 07 4:26 PM CST
(Newser) - Humans crave not only salt and sugar, but also a savory, satisfying flavor known as “umami,” the Japanese term for “deliciousness,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Umami (“oo-MA-mee”) describes the taste of stick-to-your-ribs dishes such as chicken soup or Caesar salad with Parmesan cheese... More »

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food • senses • human • MSG • Frito Lay • salt • snack foods • umami • Campbell's Soup

Salt May Get an FDA Shakedown

Increased regs likely
on concerns about overconsumption, health effects

Nov 29, 07 12:05 PM CST
(Newser) - As the White House readies a national campaign against obesity, the FDA today will consider whether to reclassify one of the biggest dietary concerns of all: salt. The American Medical Association says that for Americans, who each day consume around 2,000 milligrams more than recommended, cutting salt intake by... More »

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FDA • public health • blood pressure • stroke • American Medical Association • salt • sodium

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