PRESS RELEASE:      

WASHINGTON—At a news conference Monday morning, the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest will expose dangerously high levels of sodium in meals from Chili’s, Denny’s, Red Lobster, and other chains.

Who: Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., executive director, CSPI

Stephen Havas, M.D., adjunct professor of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Mel Daly, M.D., Medical Director of the Geriatrics Subacute Unit, Greater Baltimore Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

What: CSPI will release a report, “Heart Attack Entrées with Side Orders of Stroke,” that exposes meals dangerously high in sodium from America’s chain restaurants.  Some of those meals will be on display at the news conference.  Physicians will explain the long-term risks of consuming too much salt, and how the levels in these meals put some people, particularly the elderly, at immediate risk of health problems.

When: 10:00 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 11, 2009

Where: Lisagor Room, National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC

Why: Consuming too much sodium increases one’s risk of developing hypertension, heart disease, stroke, and kidney disease.  Most Americans should consume no more than 1,500 milligrams (mg) of sodium per day, but many of the meals CSPI will show provide more than 6,000 mg.  CSPI hopes to encourage restaurants to cut the salt and government to insist on major reductions in the sodium content of restaurant and packaged foods.

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