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Unsalty kids.


Cutting back on salt can lower blood pressure, even in children.

Two of the world's leading salt experts pooled the results of 10 small studies on kids aged 8 to 16 and 3 studies on infants Persons who are under the age of legal majority—at Common Law, 21 years, now generally 18 years. According to the sense in which this term is used, it may denote the age of the person, the contractual disabilities that non-age entails, or his or her status with regard to . Cutting sodium sodium, a metallic chemical element; symbol Na [Lat. natrium]; at. no. 11; at. wt. 22.98977; m.p. 97.81°C;; b.p. 892.9°C;; sp. gr. 0.971 at 20°C;; valence +1. Sodium is a soft, silver-white metal.  by an average of 42 percent for 4 weeks in the children--and 54 percent for 20 weeks in the infants--lowered their blood pressures significantly.

What to do: Cut back on high-sodium foods for the whole family. Blood pres sure may not reach "high" levels until middle age, but it starts rising early in life.

Hypertension hypertension or high blood pressure, elevated blood pressure resulting from an increase in the amount of blood pumped by the heart or from increased resistance to the flow of blood through the small arterial blood vessels (arterioles).  48: 1, 2006.
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Title Annotation:QUICK STUDIES
Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
Date:Dec 1, 2006
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