Washington, May 16 (ANI): Mobile phone calls may cause a rise in blood pressure; yoga may lower it; and despite the need to cut back on sodium to lower blood pressure, hypertensive individuals may have an increased desire for saltier foods.

Washington, May 14 (ANI): Despite calls from public and health agencies for the food industry to voluntarily reduce sodium levels, a study has found that the processed food and fast food still have dangerously high salt levels.

Washington, May 11 (ANI): A strange ghost town that has spent a quarter century under water is coming up for air again in the Argentine farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires.

Washington, May 1(ANI): A recent study has found that the body's internal clock, the circadian system, increases hunger and cravings for sweet, starchy and salty foods in the evenings.

Washington, Apr. 28 (ANI): Gwyneth Paltrow, who caused a stir on the red carpet when she wore an Antonio Berardi dress with sheer paneling down the length of her dress sans an underwear, has found an unlikely friend in her stylist.

Washington, April 28(ANI): Broadway star Cuba Gooding thinks that Tom Cruise is a real salt of the earth person that God has blessed.

Sydney, Apr 23 (ANI): Come August, and the new poster car for the electric vehicle Venturi VBB-3 will take to the famous Bonneville salt flats, with the aim of shattering its own record.

Washington, Apr. 10 (ANI): Food like Yak-a-mein soup have salts, protein and other ingredients that help people recover from the effects of excessive alcohol consumption.

Washington, Apr 5 (ANI): Cutting down on salt and, at the same time, increasing levels of potassium in our diet will have major health and cost benefits across the world, a new study suggests.

London, Mar 28 (ANI): Legendary Sir Ian Botham has rubbed more salt on Australia's current cricketing wounds, claiming the young New Zealand side would provide much sterner challenge to England in their return Test series than the bleak Oz team in Ashes this year.

Washington, Mar. 22 (ANI): Excessive salt consumption contributed to 2.3 million deaths from heart attacks, strokes and other heart-related diseases throughout the world in 2010, researchers have claimed.

Washington, March 7 (ANI): Increased dietary salt intake can induce a group of aggressive immune cells that are involved in triggering and sustaining autoimmune diseases, a new study has found.

Washington, February 18 (ANI): Marine mussels can adhere to virtually all inorganic and organic surfaces, sustaining their tenacious bonds in saltwater, including turbulent tidal environments.

London, February 14 (ANI): Findings from a new study could serve as a springboard for the development of taste modulators to help control the appetite for a high-salt diet and reduce the ill effects of too much sodium, say researchers.

Melbourne, Feb 12 (ANI): Just like the boxing legend he is named after, Cassius has regained the title of the biggest saltwater crocodile in captivity.

Washington, Feb 12 (ANI): As many as a half a million American lives could be saved if they all ate a fraction of a teaspoon of salt less every day, according to a new study.

Washington, February 8 (ANI): A research team led by Brown University geologists has discovered how Antarctica's Don Juan Pond gets the salty water it needs to exist.

Washington, February 7 (ANI): Mediterranean-style diet that emphasizes on fruits, vegetables and legumes, whole grains, fish, and using olive oil and herbs in place of butter and salt may help people with diabetes lose weight and lower blood sugar.

Washington, January 29 (ANI): Using spectrometric measurements taken by MESSENGER and laboratory analyzes of Mercury surface-analogue samples, researchers have determined that the upper layers of the planet's crust most closely resemble magnesian basalt terrestrial rocks, though with lower iron concentrations.

Melbourne, January 21 (ANI): Surrounding your beer in ice is actually one of the most inefficient ways of keeping your coldies cool, researchers say.

Washington, January 19 (ANI): Doctors can now easily identify trauma patients who are at a greatest risk of death using a simple, inexpensive blood test, according to researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City.

Washington, January 17 (ANI): When humans eventually travel to Mars the voyage will be long and difficult, so the simulated Mars500 mission has shown that every detail must be planned, including diet and sleep.

Washington, January 12 (ANI): In a new study, researchers have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain.

Washington, January 6 (ANI): Food concocting - the making of strange food mixtures like mashed potatoes and Oreo cookies, frozen vegetables mixed with mayonnaise, and chips with lemon, pork rinds, Italian dressing and salt - is common among binge eaters, a new study has suggested.

London, Jan 5(ANI): Fast bowler Tim Bresnan has claimed England would be looking to put right their poor one-day record against India in their country during the upcoming five-match series, starting on January 11 in Rajkot.