Marijuana growing has a huge carbon footprint.Talk about the high cost of electricity. A California researcher says indoor marijuana growing operations account for 1 percent of U.S. electrical consumption and produce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 3 million cars. The high-powered lights, fans, dehumidifiers, generators and vehicles used in U.S. cannabis production and distribution rack up $5 billion a year in energy costs, analyst Evan Mills said. Read more…

DALLAS, Aug. 31 (UPI) — The average U.S. adult eats about 1.5 teaspoons of salt a day, more than twice the recommended amount, a U.S. professor of clinical nutrition says.

Dr. Jo Ann Carson of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas says federal regulators have begun urging food manufacturers to cut back on the amount of sodium they add to everything from breakfast cereals to soups.

The aim is for manufacturers to reduce the amount so gradually consumers would barely notice the lower sodium levels, but the final limits have not yet been determined.

“Lowering our salt intake is important to control blood pressure,” Carson says in a statement.

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