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...serious amount of money, but it's the health benefits that are even more stunning. Using data from previous clinical trials on salt intake and blood pressure, the researchers found that reducing sodium by 3 g per day would be as good for the heart as cutting tobacco use by half, lowering one's body mass index 5% or taking statin medications to lower cholesterol. Even more surprising, cutting salt by 3 g per day was as effective in reducing death rates among people with hypertension as taking medication to control blood pressure. (See the 10 worst fast-food meals...
...main characters of your films tend to be socially stigmatized: a tobacco lobbyist, a pregnant teen and a man who fires people for a living. What makes you work so hard to humanize these characters...
...make a movie about a person victimized by Big Tobacco is kind of the easy way. Whereas a lobbyist for Big Tobacco in Thank You for Smoking or a pregnant teenage girl in Juno or Ryan Bingham in Up in the Air--a guy who not only fires people for a living but also has made a very politicized decision to live alone--are certainly more interesting characters to humanize...
...others sneaked onto the books without much notice at all (Arkansas now prohibits the sale of toy guns that look real--unless they're of the BB, paintball or pellet variety). With the New Year, Illinois became the 19th state to outlaw texting while driving; North Carolina, a major tobacco-producing state, outlawed smoking in restaurants and bars; and California became the first state to partly ban trans fats in restaurant food...
...weight experts are choosing to interpret the numbers in the most hopeful way, saying public-education campaigns are working and that now is the time to double down on them. "The one thing that was most responsible for the drop in the per capita tobacco use in the U.S. was public awareness," says Dietz. "That may be happening with obesity now." America's health - to say nothing of its waistline - may depend on that being true...