Table of Contents

Foreword by Tom Frieden
Prologue: An Overview of the Salt Battlefield
Chapter 1 Salt: A Primer
Chapter 2 The Case for Eating Less Salt
Chapter 3 The Case Against Eating Less Salt
Chapter 4 What All the Research Means
Chapter 5 The Mouse that Roared: The Salt Institute
Chapter 6 Money and Science
Chapter 7 Less-Salty Diets around the Globe
Chapter 8 Policy Paralysis in the United States
Chapter 9 Progress at Last!
Chapter 10 Action Plan for Better Health
Chapter 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
About the Author

About the Author

Michael F. Jacobson is Cofounder of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. After serving as Codirector or Executive Director of CSPI for more than four decades, he is now a consultant to the organization. He is the author of Six Arguments for a Greener Diet and other books.