Abstract
In this issue ofThe Journaland in the two preceding issues appear parts of a report<sup>1</sup>on sodium-restricted diets prepared by a committee sponsored jointly by the Council on Foods and Nutrition and the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council. The complete report includes a discussion of the physiology of sodium metabolism; the use of sodium-restricted diets in disease states; the complications and contraindications to sodium restriction; planning sodium-restricted diets; the sources of sodium in foods and elsewhere, including the effect of cooking on sodium content of foods; analytical methods; and salt substitutes. A table of the sodium and potassium content of foods includes all of the presently available data. The usefulness of sodium restriction in particular disease states has been repeatedly referred to, yet many physicians have not had the success that they had expected. Failure of a new therapeutic measure to fulfill expectations
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