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ATLANTA — Seven out of 10 Americans should restrict their salt consumption, but very few of them do, according to a new government study.
About 145 million U.S. adults are thought to be more sensitive to salt — a group that includes anyone with high blood pressure, African-Americans and everyone older than 40.
That group should eat no more than about two-thirds of a teaspoon of salt each day. But only 1 in 10 people in that targeted group are meeting that guideline, according to estimates released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I don’t think ‘alarming’ is too strong” a term for describing the results, said Dr. Darwin Labarthe, director of the CDC’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.
