If you're avoiding salt, then you probably know to stay away from salty potato chips. But a recent UK study found that prepared sandwiches can contain as much salt as seven bags of chips. That's a lot of salt, more than any of us should be eating. So where is all that salt coming from? Lunch meat is notoriously salty and prepared foods often contain sodium as a preservative, but the survey found that even sandwiches with similar ingredients had widely varying amounts of salt. So what's a salt savvy person to do when they want a sandwich? Make it at home with fresh ingredients, choose from this list of sandwiches with less than 2mg of sodium, or cut out salt elsewhere in your daily intake. Read more over at our sister site That's Fit.

Here's something I never thought I'd hear: some Frito-Lay products are going to be carrying heart-healthy labels touting the benefits of unsaturated fats.

Although it's true that unsaturated fats are much healthier than saturated ones, this seems like just another desperate attempt for generally bad-for-you products to get in on the trend towards more health-conscious foods. I will give them credit for a decently worded label, however. According to the FDA this is the statement Frito-Lay plans to use on products that meet the requirements: "Replacing saturated fat with similar amounts of unsaturated fats may reduce the risk of heart disease. To achieve this benefit, total daily calories should not increase."

I guess I can't blame them, and if it's true then it's true, right? But I wonder what products get the new labels? Doritos? Cracker Jacks? Fritos?

Lay's potato chips will soon be better for you. Frito Lay, the manufacturer of the popular snack, announced Wednesday that it would begin cooking Lay's and Ruffle Potato chips in sunflower oil; previously cottonseed oil was used. By the end of 2006 the healthier chips will be available nationwide. Lay's has been under pressure to improve the quality of their product from consumers, schools and the medical health communities.

Some critics are fearful that by changing one of the world's most popular snack foods the company will be making a monumental mistake. However, health professional agree that this is a positive trend in the snack food market. The most popular of all the Lay's chips, the Classic potato chip, will see a 66 percent decrease of saturated fat per one ounce serving. Lay's changed the make up of their chips for the Canadian market and has seen a 10 percent increase in their overall Canadian sales.

A healthier chip does not mean that consumers can eat the entire bag or binge on ice cream to make up for the fat decrease, but it does mean that there might be just a little less guilt over a handful of chips.