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(WZZM) - How much salt is in the food you eat? The Centers for Disease Control issued a new list of ten foods that account for more than 40 percent of salt intake.
It turns out, the biggest source of sodium in our diet comes from bread.
Nine out of ten adults eat too much salt each day, an average of 33-hundred milligrams when all we're supposed to have is no more than 23 hundred milligrams a day.
People with problems like high blood pressure should have even less.
High sodium levels increase blood pressure, putting people at a higher risk for heart disease and stroke.
To talk more about this new study and the other salty foods on the list, we asked Krista Gast, a registered dietitian with Spectrum Health to join us. To watch the interview, click on the video link.
To learn more about the study done by the Centers for Disease Control, click here.