LOW-SALT DIET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does low-salt diet mean? 

• LOW-SALT DIET (noun)
  The noun LOW-SALT DIET has 1 sense:

1. a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride); often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders

  Familiarity information: LOW-SALT DIET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW-SALT DIET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride); often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

low-salt diet; low-sodium diet; salt-free diet

Hypernyms ("low-salt diet" is a kind of...):

diet (a prescribed selection of foods)

 Context examples 

An NHLBI-funded study of more than 400 adults with prehypertension, or stage 1 high blood pressure, found that the combination of a low-salt diet with DASH substantially lowers systolic blood pressure.

(DASH ranked Best Diet Overall for eighth year in a row by U.S. News and World Report, National Institutes of Health)