News Nugget: New York gets ready to fight salt
Last summer, New York City was the first city in the country to go trans-fat-free. Then it posted calories on menus. Now, NYC’s health department is taking on salt. City officials are meeting with food makers and restaurants to talk about cutting down the amount of salt in common foods like soup, pasta sauce, salad dressing and bread. About three-fourths of the salt Americans eat comes from prepared and processed food, not from the salt shaker, and New York officials want the food industry to help cut back.
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News Nugget: New York gets ready to fight salt
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