Sodium in Food and High Blood Pressure: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, April 13 and 14, 1981 |
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Albert Gore American amount of salt amount of sodium antihypertensive Association Blood Institute cardiovascular disease Center Chairman CLAIBORNE clinical consumers cost Detection and Follow-up diastolic dietary sodium diuretic drugs effective essential hypertension evidence factors Follow-up Program GORE grams HDFP high blood pressure Hopper Hypertension Detection increase industry JACOBSON kidney KNAUER Laragh levels of sodium low sodium major manufacturers McDonald's MCMILLAN meat and poultry mEq/d mg/d milligrams milligrams of sodium million National Heart National High Blood normal NOVITCH nutrition labeling Oscar Mayer patients percent Policy Committee population potassium potassium chloride poultry products problem processed foods RC group recommended reduced sodium regulations require risk role salt intake Science scientific SHAMANSKY sodium chloride sodium content sodium diets sodium intake sodium labeling sodium restriction soup stratum studies subcommittee testimony therapy tion TOBIAN tomato treatment USDA VOLKMER WALKER
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Page 128 - ... the Committee on Dietary Allowances of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences — National Research Council do not allow any "margin of safety" as do their recommendations for intake levels of other nutrients such as Vitamin C.
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Page 149 - Schwelker of the Department of Health and Human Services. Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which organized the petition drive, charged that by not limiting salt, FDA has neglected its legal responsiblity to guarantee the safety of the American food supply.
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Page 88 - The first priority need is to determine the effectiveness of antihypertensive therapy in reducing morbidity and mortality from hypertension in the general population. Such studies should include both sexes, all races in a community, and younger [adults] as well as middle age ranges.