Saving Lives With Reduced Salt Intake
by Carmen Lim
@ 17 Apr 2014
It’s a well-known fact that excessive salt intake is detrimental to our health, and the salt reduction done on the part of food manufacturers has proven to have reduced the number of deaths caused by heart attacks and strokes over the past decade.
Between 2003 and 2011, daily salt intake dropped by 15 per cent, according to data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey. The drop is likely to have been largely driven by cuts to the amount of salt that food manufacturers put in their products, as part of wide-reaching public health campaigns which launched throughout the UK in 2003. Professor Graham MacGregor, of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine at Queen Mary, University of London said that the reductions in blood pressure rates caused by lower salt intake since 2003 would have been responsible for saving around 9,000 lives per year by 2011, and 18,000 incidents of heart disease or stroke. Read on at
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/food-manufacturers-push-to-reduce-salt-has-saved-lives-9259724.html
