Eating less than 1500 mg of salt a day might help keep your heart healthy and lower your chances of getting high blood pressure, according to the American Heart Association.

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, so cutting down salt for everyone could save a lot of lives.

If you have high blood pressure and eat less salt—cutting from about 4.6 grams down to 1.5–2.4 grams a day—your blood pressure will likely go down a bit, especially if you're older, Black, or have kidney disease or metabolic syndrome.

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.

If you eat less salt, your blood pressure tends to go down, and you’re less likely to have a stroke, heart problems, or die early.