2011
- WASH response to JAMA paper examining sodium excretion and risk of cardiovascular events
- ‘Posh’ salt health claims should be taken with a grain of salt!
- Cochrane review shows beneficial effects of long term salt reduction
- UN High-Level Meeting fails to set life-saving targets for salt reduction
UN NCD Summit New York 19-20 September - UN High Level Meeting on NCDs - 19-20 September 2011
- UN NCD Summit New York 19-20th September 2011'South Africa leads the world in setting salt reduction targets'
- Salt reduction under threat at the UN High level meeting in New York
- Concerns raised over international progress on Non Communicable Disease epidemic
- UN SUMMIT - The UN High-level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (the 'UN Summit' or 'UN HLM') will be held on 19-20 September 2011
- Policy options to reduce population salt intake
- Salt intake definitely linked to high blood pressure in older Australians
- Modest salt reduction lowers your risk of a heart attack or stroke
- New EU labelling rules
- The Cochrane Collaboration - Reduced dietary salt for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (review)
- Dangerous levels of salt in sausages
- High Level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to be held in New York in September 2011. Alert your Head of State to the importance of salt reduction
- Research suggesting a low salt diet may increase the risks of cardiovascular disease has questioned current drives to reduce salt intakes - however experts from the UK and USA have been quick to dismiss the study as 'flawed' (May 2011)
- Interested in developing a national programme to reduce dietary salt? (April 2011)
- New Research reveals huge differences in sodium contents of identical pizzas around the world (March 2011)
