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A surprising new study suggests that eating a diet low in salt may be worse for your heart than eating a diet rich in salt. Investigators looked at a federal health data from between 1988 and 1994 of about 8,700 Americans over age 30 who ate a normal diet. By the year 2000, researchers found that the 25 percent of the people who ate the least salt were 80 percent more likely to die of heart disease than the 25 percent who ate the most salt. But investigators caution that people shouldn't run out... Read more »