NEW YORK — Subway riders, after being cautioned about smoking, sugar and teen pregnancy, are getting a new message: Pass on the salt.
The city's Department of Health launched an ad campaign Monday urging passengers to scrutinize the salt in packaged foods and choose those with less. The ad shows two loaves of bread and zooms in on the sodium line in their nutrition labels, showing that one loaf has more than twice the sodium of the other.
"Too much salt can lead to heart attack and stroke," the ad warns.