Foreword by Tom Frieden Prologue: An Overview of the Salt Battlefield Chapter 1 Salt: A Primer Chapter 2 The Case for Eating Less Salt Chapter 3 The Case Against Eating Less Salt Chapter 4 What All the Research Means Chapter 5 The Mouse that Roared: The Salt Institute Chapter 6 Money and Science Chapter 7 Less-Salty Diets around the Globe Chapter 8 Policy Paralysis in the United States Chapter 9 Progress at Last! Chapter 10 Action Plan for Better Health Chapter 11 Protecting Your Own Health Epilogue: Salt's Lesson on Industry and Public Health Acknowledgments Appendix A: List of Information Boxes, Figures, and Tables Appendix B: Abbreviations Notes Index About the Author
Michael F. Jacobson is Cofounder of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. After serving as Codirector or Executive Director of CSPI for more than four decades, he is now a consultant to the organization. He is the author of Six Arguments for a Greener Diet and other books.