{"id":931,"date":"2013-03-06T11:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2013-04-06T07:26:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T07:26:13","slug":"is-cutting-salt-intake-a-global-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/archives\/931","title":{"rendered":"Is Cutting salt intake \u2018a global priority\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"a7448fcb-92fe-4cb9-a8e5-1f7cf1292f53\"<\/a>There is a consistent and direct relation between salt intake<\/a> with blood pressure. High blood pressure in turn is linked to heart disease, stroke and kidney problems.\u00a0 For your health benefit you need to voluntarily reduce consumption of salt levels.<\/p>\n

The report \u2013 by researchers at the Universities of Warwick and Liverpool \u2013 says that after cutting tobacco consumption, getting people to eat less salt would be the most cost effective way to improve global health.<\/p>\n

They point to the US, where cutting salt intake by a third would save tens of thousands of lives and save up to $24 billion annually in health care costs.<\/p>\n

But with 70% of deaths from strokes and heart attacks occurring in developing countries, the report says the impact of reduced intake would be global.<\/p>\n

Industry responsibility<\/b><\/p>\n

However, the researchers warn that both widespread education and engagement with the food industry will be needed to limit the salt content of processed foods.<\/p>\n

One of the report authors, Professor Francisco Cappucio, of the University of Warwick, said the food industry had a “huge responsibility” to take action.\u00a0 He said: “The reformulation of food in their hands could deliver a massive impact to public health in the same way that at the moment it is contributing to a huge burden of disease.<\/p>\n

It is quite a vicious circle, and these circles create profit and it is important that these profits are balanced against the health of the population.<\/p>\n

But Morton Satin, vice president at the industry body, the Salt Institute, said: “The salt reduction agenda has become an urban myth \u2013 far more based upon populist ideology than objective science.”\u00a0 Mr. Satin said there had been a number of studies in the past year that have questioned the prevailing wisdom on the health damage caused by salt.\u00a0 He said: “This compulsion to regulate is being pushed by a gaggle of activist ideologues who have long ago abandoned science to take up the salt-bashing cudgel.”<\/p>\n

Blood pressure cut<\/b><\/p>\n

Professor Cappucio pointed to successful salt reduction programmes in Finland, Portugal and Japan which all showed substantial reductions in blood pressure following cutbacks in salt consumption.\u00a0 He has little time for the efforts of the food and salt industry to re-open the debate on health effects.<\/p>\n

There has been some antagonism from the food industry, trying to create some false feeling of controversy to confuse consumers.\u00a0 There is a covert approach to protect their profits at a time where a reduction in salt intake might erode some of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a consistent and direct relation between salt intake with blood pressure. High blood pressure in turn is linked to heart disease, stroke and kidney problems.\u00a0 For your health benefit you need to voluntarily reduce consumption of salt levels. The report \u2013 by researchers at the Universities of Warwick and Liverpool \u2013 says that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[24,162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandaretreats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}