While your tastebuds may cringe at this idea, a national standard for sodium content may just save your heart. Read on to find out why less salt equals more years!

As snacks, US adults are now consuming on average 100 more beverage calories (that's roughly equivalent to 8 ounces of regular soda) and 180 more food calories (about 2 big handfuls of pretzel thins) than they were in the late seventies.