Study finds eating salt doesn't affect heart, blood pressure

Shake on! Sprinkle salt on fries, veggies, rim your margarita with it and just go crazy. Reuters is reporting a  new study finds eating salt doesn't increase your risk for high blood pressure or heart disease.

For the study, European researchers followed a group of more than 3,000 participants over eight years. They were divided into three groups, those with the highest salt intake, those with average salt intake and those with the lowest.

In fact, not only did the group with the highest salt intake have the least amount of high blood pressure and heart disease, the group with the lowest had the highest rate of high blood pressure and heart disease.

The findings of the study were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

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