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Shaking the Salt Habit
(NBC News, 2010)
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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.
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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