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Resources

We encourage all members to use and adapt these materials with their local Country contact details and messages, ensuring the CASH/WASH logo is retained. materials can be used to;

•  Distribute copies at local community events, hospitals, health centres, libraries;

•  Provide copies for healthcare professionals

•  Use the poster as an advert in print publications

•  Seek sponsorship from local companies for supporting events

Media:

Leaflets

To view the leaflets click on the links below.

1. Salt and your health - includes information on the health implications of eating too much salt, a list of foods that are high and low in salt, and simple steps to reduce salt in your diet. Click here to view salt and health leaflet

2.Salt and Eating Out Consumer Guide - includes information on long term health implications of eating too much salt, salt in food that we eat and cook at home, salt and eating out and top tips for eating out. Click here to view the Consumer Guide

3.Salt intake and the health of your children - includes information on the long term health implications of eating too much salt, recommended maximum intakes and practical advice on reducing salt intake. Click here to view children's leaflet

4. The importance of cutting salt as you grow older - describes why it is especially important to cut salt intake as you get older as this will immediately cut the risk of stroke and heart attack. Click here to view salt and older people leaflet

Posters

To view the posters click on the links.

Salt Awareness Week 2010 - Size A3 highlighting 'Salt and your health'
Click here to view the poster (PDF)
Click here to view the poster (SIT File for editing)

Salt Awareness Week 2009 - Size A3 highlighting 'Salt and eating out'
Click here to view the poster

Salt Awareness Week poster 2008 - Size A3 highlighting 'Salt and children's health'
Click here to view the poster

Salt Awareness Week poster 2007 - Size A2 highlights the 'Dangers of hidden salt'
Click here to view the poster

Fact Sheets

The items below are original documents which you are allowed to download and copy as long as you keep the reference to WASH.

Salt and Blood Pressure
Salt and Kidney Disease and Kidney Stones
Salt and Obesity
Salt and Osteoporosis
Salt and Other Conditions (Meniere's disease, asthma, diabetes)
Salt and Stomach Cancer
Salt and Stroke and Heart disease

Factsheet: Salt and the older population
Factsheet: Salt and the black population of African descent
Factsheet: Salt labelling

WASH Logo

You are welcome to use the WASH logo in colour or in black & white:

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Slides: NB These slides materials can be used for free by individuals for teaching purposes however please leave the website address on the bottom and copyright is retained by Professor G. MacGregor

Click here for slides for teaching purposes

International Society of Hypertension 2006 Meeting Statement - reducing excess salt intakes

Scientific Research: for a list of journal papers relevant to salt reduction click here

Global Salt Initiative Presentation (March 2009)

Framework for salt reduction

WASH have produced a report for the Malaysian Minister of Health which summaries the evidence for salt and blood pressure, identifies where salt comes from in the Malaysian diet and provides a framework for the Malaysian Government to reduce the level of salt intake in their country. This report is available on request for WASH members and other interested parties to adapt for their own country. To obtain a copy please contact WASH project co-ordinator, Katharine Jenner at wash@qmul.ac.uk including your planned usage of the document.