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Family Practice Vol. 16, No. 3, 316
© Oxford University Press 1999

Book Reviews

Salt, diet & health: Neptune's poisoned chalice: the origins of high blood pressure.

Malcolm Law

Reader in Epidemiology, Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, St Bartholomew's and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry

GA MacGregor, HE de Wardener. (241 pages, £14.95 paperback, £40.00 hardback.) Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-63545-4 paperback, 0-521-58352-7 hardback.

This book will be intelligible to a lay readership, so should have wider appeal than the nutritional or physiological interests its title might suggest. For those interested in social history, salt has touched on a wide range of human activities. Stone-age man ate little salt—less than a tenth of the present . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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