Eating too much salt—more than 2,000 mg a day—can raise your chances of having a stroke or heart problems, but cutting back to that level or less may help lower your blood pressure and keep you from dying of heart disease.

Eating too much salt—more than 2,000 mg a day—can raise your chances of having a stroke or heart problems, and when whole populations eat less salt, people’s blood pressure tends to drop and fewer people die from heart disease.

Eating too much salt—more than 2,000 mg a day—can raise your chances of having a stroke or heart problems, so cutting down salt for everyone could save a lot of lives.

If a healthy young person eats a lot of salt—about 18 grams a day for 10 days—their blood pressure won’t go up, whether they’re sitting still or going about their normal day.

Cutting back a little on salt — even if you eat a lot now — can help lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart attacks and dying early.

Even if you eat a ton of salt for 10 days, your blood pressure won’t go up if you’re a healthy young adult—your body just pees out the extra salt and your blood stays normal.