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Tuesday Checkup: Salt - Where You Wouldn't Expect It

A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that if Americans cut half a teaspoon of salt from their daily diets, it would prevent tens of thousands of deaths a year. But we're living at a time when salt is plentiful in the American diet, appearing in places you'd never expect....in quantities you'd never expect. Harlan Spector's story is in the health section of today's Plain Dealer. He spoke with ideastream®s' Eric Wellman.