It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting way too long.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrove

and along with my co-host David. Hello, Steve. Hello, everybody.

And also the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. Hello, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the salt puns will be doing throughout the show.

There are a hundred thousand deaths every year that could be prevented by eating less of one thing.

It's not sugar, it's not fat. It's salt and yet this sodium is the biggest killer in the American diet

According to our first guest that Dr Michael Jacobson. He's the author of the book Salt Wars and it he contends that this salty Darth Vader

receives far less public attention than sugar and fat do. Salt causes high blood pressure,

heart attacks and strokes and yet the American food industry and a small group of scientists,

believe it or not, fight government efforts to reduce the sodium in our foods.

In the second part of the program, we're going to talk about another way to stay healthy

by keeping your health care working. We are reaching that time of year when people need to

re-enroll in Medicare and this is a prime time for scammers.

Last year we lost 60 billion dollars to Medicare fraud.

Our second guest Elliot Greenblot is an expert on the Medicare fraud racket and he's going

to tell us how to avoid falling victim to it

in between we will as always take some time to check in with our corporate crime

reporter Russell Mokieber but first Campbell's chicken soup is known as a salt bomb, meaning that more than a day's worth of sodium is packed into that one meal.

Let's find out what other foods are turning our circulatory system into salt mines.

David?

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