Shaking the Salt Habit (NBC News, 2010) We have news tonight on
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Shaking the Salt Habit (NBC News, 2010) We have news tonight on
www.anglophonie.fr page 1/2 Shaking the Salt Habit (NBC News, 2010) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34276015/vp/35716562#35716562 We have news tonight on a common ingredient (that) many people really try to avoid, but one that has a way of sneaking into the American diet in some of the most unlikely places that can add up to a serious health hazard. With our series of reports called “Personal Best” here this week, here’s NBC’s Ann Thompson. The American diet is stuck in a blizzard of salt. Most healthy people should have about a teaspoon a day, but on average we consume nearly twice that amount. To shake the habit, we turn to Mayo Clinic’s Doctor Don Hensrude. Over three-fourth of the salt that we get in our diet comes from processed foods. It is a stealth ingredient described on food labels as sodium. So this looks like a pretty healthy way to start the day. It is if you’re not looking at sodium. In this cereal here, which is about one cup of cereal, there are 420 milligrams of sodium with the milk. That’s about twenty percent of the sodium people should consume in a day. Twenty percent – it’s toasted wheat! It’s cereal; it’s one of those foods you don’t think of being high in sodium, but many cereals are. One cup of tomato juice: 480 milligrams of sodium -- and so there’s another twenty percent. By the time you walk out the door after breakfast here, you’ve used up forty percent of your sodium for the day in these two foods. Is there a kid in America who hasn’t had chicken nuggets? And this seems like a small amount, a reasonable serving; still another twenty percent of daily salt intake in the chicken nuggets here. So if you find all this information a little hard to digest, here’s an easier way to keep an eye on your sodium intake: just remember two numbers – five and twenty. And then look at the label for the daily value or DV percentage. Five percent or less of the daily value is considered low. Twenty percent or more of the daily value is considered high. Lesley and Bob Litweiller both have hypertension and try to keep salt out of their lives – literally! We’ve put it (salt) out for company, but other than that, it’s seldom. When they ask for it, but we don’t put it on the table. Keep it off your table and items high in sodium out of your grocery cart, because when it comes to salt, less is more. Ann Thompson, NBC News, Rodchester, Minnesota. page 2/2 Vocabulary 01. Shaking the salt habit 02. a way of sneaking into the American diet se débarrasser de l’habitude un moyen d’entrer subrepticement dans le régime alimentaire américain 03. the most unlikely places 04. to add up to a serious health hazard 05. stuck in a blizzard of salt les endroits les plus improbables conduire à un risque sérieux pour la santé “embourbé” dans un blizzard de sel 06. a teaspoon 07. twice that amount 08. a stealth ingredient 09. a pretty healthy way to start the day une cuillerée (à café) deux fois cette quantité un ingrédient “furtif” une manière plutôt saine (pour la santé) de 10. toasted wheat 11. by the time you walk out the door 12. to use up forty percent 13. a kid démarrer la journée du blé grillé lorsque vous quittez votre domicile consommer un gosse 14. salt intake 15. to keep an eye on your sodium intake 16. to keep salt out of their lives 17. to put out salt consommation pour surveiller votre consommation de sodium ne pas consommer du sel mettre du sel sur la table 18. it’s seldom 19. keep it off your table and out of your grocery cart c’est rare ne pas mettre du sel sur la table ou dans votre caddie de supermarché