Similarly the American Heart Association is a licensing and fundraising organization which rakes in around $750 million in revenues and gave out $150 in grants.

Similarly the American Heart Association is a licensing and fundraising organization which rakes in around $750 million in revenues and gave out $150 in grants. The rest of the program spend of $595 million which was $445 million (!!) goes on salaries and fund raising. The AHA has around 4,000 employees. They have an endowment of $1.2B. [1] Amongst the most dubious of AHA recommendations are dietary sodium around 1.5-2.5g/day [2] which flouts established research which shows all-cause mortality doubling from 4-6 g/day to 1.5-2.5g/day to those who do not have salt specific hypertension. But they dgaf as their primary focus is not the heart and cardiovascular health of Americans but licensing the "Good Heart" license to cereal companies so they can use it to sell more obesity causing products like Honey Nut Cheerios. [1] https://paddockpost.com/2016/02/09/where-does-1-to-the-american-heart-association-go/ https://paddockpost.com/2016/02/09/where-does-1-to-the-ameri... [2] https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/high-blood-pressure/changes-you-can-make-to-manage-high-blood-pressure/shaking-the-salt-habit-to-lower-high-blood-pressure https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/high-blood-pressure/c... [3] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1311889 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1311889