~ear ~eader:
The point of this book is simple and straighfforwan
It needs no Fifteen-letter medical words. Here it is. I
the last 20 years of scientific research， it has becom
increasingly clear that salt， the table condiment， in th
quantities we use every day is toxic and a slow-actin
poison. Its continuons usb leads to or helps in th
development of a disease i~alled high blood pressur~
Let me be very blunt. _~-Iigh blood pressure is
mortal disease. It kills. It ~ many people every yem
It s not only fatal but extremely common. The facts ar
that one out of 10 Americans suffers from this disease
This means that more than 20 million people in thi
country， whites， blacks， men， women， people from al
walks of life--have high blood pressure. Twenty mfl
lion people is a huge number---equivalent to th(
combined populations of Belgium and The Nether.
lands， and more than the combined population of twc
of the worlds largest metropolises， New York and
Tokyo.
Because of the extent of the disease， hypertension，
the term used by doctors to designate high blood pres-
sure， has become a major area of investigation and
research. Multiple studies demonstrate that a simple
low-salt diet， without any additional drugs， can be an
effective therapy for this disease. Five to seven million
out of the 20 million Americans affected can control
their hypertension just by reducin~ their ，~nl~- ~，，~，1.~
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