Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Too much salt inflames the brain and raises blood pressure, McGill scientists find. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) Salt has always been ...

Cooking with a salt substitute might lead to blander food, but it could lower the risk of premature death and cardiovascular disease. Those are the findings of a new systematic analysis that was ...

Using less salt in your food may seem boring, but the payoffs could be as big as a lowered risk of death, new research has found. Using a salt substitute when cooking was linked with a lower risk of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who ate lots of salt were not more likely to get high blood pressure, and were less likely to die of heart disease than those with a low salt intake, in a new ...

The participants of an international study on the effectiveness of adding folic acid to iodized table salt in the prevention of serious birth defects hold containers of the fortified salt they ...

(CNN) -- Using less salt in your food may seem boring, but the payoffs could be as big as a lowered risk of death, new research has found. (CNN) — Using less salt in your food may seem boring, but the ...

Salt has always been linked to high blood pressure, but scientists are now discovering that the real culprit may not be just the kidneys. A groundbreaking study from McGill University shows that too ...