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The experts reckon we eat too much salt

A major government food campaign is aiming to persuade Britons to limit their salt intake - monday 13th September 2004 - BBC news headline

The Food Standards Agency hopes the 26m people who it says are consuming more salt than is healthy for them will heed its health warnings.

High salt consumption can contribute to high blood pressure, which can lead to heart disease and stroke, it says.

So where is this salt?

• 75% of salt consumed is from processed foods,
• 10-15% is added by consumers and
• 10-15% is naturally present in food, the FSA said.

The daily recommended amounts are 6g daily - Men have a daily average of 11g of salt while women have an average of 8.1g a day.

As most of the food we eat is in processed food then this is where we need to make the most changes but it would also be the most difficult to cut down on without cutting out processed foods altogther. Read the labels. See how much salt is in food.

Quick hints for less salt

• Don't put salt in food when you're cooking it
• Don't put the salt pot on the table
• Encourage people to try food before putting salt on it.
• Try low salt alternatives
• If all else fails - "run out of" salt - just throw it away, they're unlikely to walk to the shop to buy some more.

Salt makes food taste "better" - and we become used to how food tastes with lots of salt. Therefore we like food better with that much extra salt in.

In order to eat less salt overall we need to re-educate ourselves to like food without as much salt in.

Salt is labelled as sodium on most food labels - which probably isn't the easiest thing for most people to remember when they're checking everything they need to about eating healthily.

As time goes on more food manufacturers will be likely to produce low salt food - watch out for them.

Try giving your family more unprocessed foods or those with lower salt levels. Avoid the obvious foods which they love salt on - chips have to be the most common food eaten with salt on!

Weaning your family off salt might be a lot of hard work but it'll be good for you!

Suggestions for more things to do

You could write to your supermarket and ask them to reduce the salt in their own brand foods!

Write to your favourite restaurants and ask them about the levels of salt in their food.

Write to your favourite food companies and ask them to reduce salt in their products!

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