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. Cutting sodium 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 mid·dle age (m d l)n. The time of human life between youth and old age, usually reckoned as the years between 40 and 60. Also called midlife. , but it starts rising early in life.
Hypertension 48: 1, 2006.
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