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P. F. Chang’s Double Pan-Fried Noodles with Pork is a heart-stopper with 7,900 mg of sodium.

Imagine pouring one and a half teaspoons of salt directly into your mouth. Can you taste it? Blah, blech! You’d shed an ocean of tears trying to choke down those tongue-tingling crystals.

Yet, if you’re a typical American, you eat that much salt every single day. And that’s one primary reason why 50 percent of us are considered at risk for high blood pressure.

I know, that sounds impossible—you seldom if ever reach for the salt shaker, right? Well, you don’t have to: Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that most of us consume about 3,400 mg of sodium a day, but only 5 percent of it comes from home cooking. Some occurs in foods naturally, but the overwhelming majority of the sodium you eat—77 percent—comes foods sold in supermarkets and restaurants. Heart disease is the number-one killer of Americans, and sodium is one of the primary culprits.

Read more: Health SearchThe Saltiest Foods of 2011

Salt Works, one of the world’s top salt companies, specializes in a variety of exotic sea salts, gourmet salt slats, bath & spa salts in a variety of grades and sizes. With most orders shipped for free and on the same day, plus a huge inventory upwards of 2 million pounds of salts, you don’t need to look any further than Salt Works for your next order.

Whether you’re looking for gourmet salt or salt for bath & spa, you need to consider ordering some of the best & most interesting salts on the market; Himalayan salts.

Himalayan salt is pure, hand-mined salt found naturally; deep within the pristine Himalayan Mountains.

Crystallized more than 200 million years ago, ancient sea beds were covered by volcanic lava, protecting the salt from modern-day pollution, and lending to the belief that Himalayan Pink salt is the purest salt to be found on earth.

This stuff is the real deal, with incredible quality and versatility for your daily uses and exotic desires.

One of the unique products are the Himalayan Salt Slabs. These things look beautiful. They’ve been hand-cut straight from ancient salt deposits deep from within the Himalayan Mountains. Possible uses for these include;

• Serving platter- giving a salty flavour to foods including sushi, fruits, and vegetables
• Cooking aid- sear vegetables after coating with butter, offering even heat distribution

By The Canadian Press

TORONTO – Gerber, one of the best-known names in baby food, has been named this year’s recipient of the “Salt Lick Award” due to the high sodium content in one of its prepared meals for toddlers.

The Canadian Stroke Network and the Advanced Foods & Materials Network chose Gerber Graduates Lil’ Entrees because the product line’s Chicken & Pasta Wheel Pickups dinner contains 550 mg of sodium – more than half a toddler’s adequate daily intake of 1,000 mg.

The organizations say the amount of sodium in the prepared food is equivalent to that contained in two medium orders of McDonald’s french fries. McDonald’s Canada website says a medium order of fries contains 270 mg of sodium.

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