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and blood pressure are scarce in children.
• The CDC researchers looked at data on 6,200 kids aged 8 to 18 involved in 2003-08 national health surveys. The children were asked twice over several days to detail all foods they'd eaten the previous day; the researchers calculated salt intake from their answers.
• Overall, 15 percent had either high blood pressure or slightly elevated blood pressure called prehypertension.
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Iran's nuke chief to speak at 155-nation atomic agency meet on Tehran's atomic agenda
• VIENNA (AP) -- Iran's nuclear chief is addressing a 155-nation meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency that will focus on Tehran's contentious atomic program as well as Mideast tensions over Israel's nuclear capacities.
• Fereydoun Abbasi is expected Monday to again outline Iran's refusal to give up uranium enrichment -- which it says it needs to make reactor fuel. The U.N. Security Council has ordered Tehran to stop the activity, however, because of fears it might use it to produce nuclear warheads.
• Iran denies any interest in nuclear weapons. But it has refused to stop enrichment, despite offers of reactor fuel from abroad. It dismisses IAEA suspicions that it worked secretly on nuclear arms.
• For the Arabs, Israel's nuclear capacities are the greatest threat. Israel is believed to have nuclear arms.
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