Contents

Foreword by Tom Frieden

Prologue: An Overview of the Salt Battlefield

1 Salt: A Primer

2 The Case for Eating Less Salt

3 The Case against Eating Less Salt

4 What All the Research Means

5 The Mouse That Roared: The Salt Institute

6 Money and Science

7 Less-Salty Diets around the Globe

8 Policy Paralysis in the United States

9 Progress at Last!

10 Action Plan for Better Health

11 Protecting Your Own Health

Epilogue: Salt’s Lesson on Industry and Public Health

Acknowledgments

Appendix A: List of Information Boxes, Figures, and Tables

Appendix B: Abbreviations

Notes

Index

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