Poll: Americans eat too much salt

Published May 6, 2016 2:52pm ET



Nearly all Americans eat way too much salt, with processed and restaurant-prepared foods as major contributors, a new government poll found.

Nearly 90 percent of adults said in a recent poll from the Food and Drug Administration that they ate more salt than they should. Another three-quarters of Americans believed that products in supermarkets contained more or the same amount of salt as five years ago, according to the poll of healthy habits of adults in 2014.

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