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Show i . Salt In Diet The Food and Drug Administration Admi-nistration reports that by the end of the year about half the nation's canned, processed and packaged foods will be labeled as to salt content. IN ANOTHER few years the percentage will reach 75 percent per-cent an FDA spokesman said, adding that the Reagan Administration's Admi-nistration's effort to label salt is making rapid progress. Salt is present in any food which includes "sodium." "monosodium," "disodium." or "trisodium" as part of a chemical name. SINCE HIGH blood pressures press-ures cause of stokes and heart disease, is often the result or partly the result of excessive salt intake, food labels should be very carefully read. Even such unsuspected favorites as ice cream, peanut butter and gelatin desserts often contain considerable salt, so don't let traditional impressions im-pressions prevent a reading of labels. |