LINK: "If you're trying to reduce your salt consumption to control your blood pressure, you'll have to do more than just keep the salt shaker off the table.

Many prepared foods, including soups, cereals, frozen dinners and canned vegetables, contain large amounts of salt, warn University of Michigan (U-M) Health System experts.

The result can be higher blood pressure in people with hypertension.

'Because hypertension is an enormous contributor to strokes, heart failure and heart attacks, that makes controlling it a great problem for patients and for physicians,' said Dr. Lee Green, an associate professor of family medicine."