Mexico City tries to get salt shakers off tables

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In this April 9, 2013 photo, a salt shaker sits on a table in a restaurant in Mexico City. The country's Health Secretary Armando Ahued launched a campaign, dubbed “Less Salt, More Health,” to get restaurants to take salt shakers off their tables. Officials and the city’s restaurant chamber signed an agreement to encourage eateries to provide shakers only if guests ask for them. The program is voluntary but the chamber is urging its members to comply. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Salt and lime with tequila. Salt with your iced "michelada" beer. Salt and chili on fruit and even candy. Mexicans love salt, so much so that some estimates show them eating nearly three times the recommended amount and significantly more than what Americans put down.

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