Salt reduction in UK food

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You will have noticed food manufacturers trumpeting reduced salt on their labels.

A government sponsored, but voluntary, programme was introduced encouraging the food industry to reduce salt content.

It worked.

There is a lot more to say, but between 2003 and 2011, random sampling indicated that salt intake reduced by 15%, leasing to a drop in blood pressure in the population.

And a dramatic drop in heart disease (42%) and strokes (40%).

It's remarkable that such a simple change had such an effect.

Don't believe me?

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Salt reduction in the United Kingdom: a successful experiment in public health - Journal of Human Hypertension

The United Kingdom has successfully implemented a salt reduction programme. We carried out a comprehensive analysis of the programme with an aim of providing a step-by-step guide of developing and implementing a national salt reduction strategy, which other countries could follow. The key...
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Next stop, obesity.
 
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F**K to them telling me what I can eat or can't eat and whether I have to have a jab for a complete scam. I'll eat what I want when I want and if I think it needs more salt or more anything for that matter I will lash it on regardless. I'm 74 and I have to die of something. We come in to the world from the between the legs of a screaming female and we leave quite possibly screaming in pain. There is no god or supreme entity although governments like to think of themselves as divine so whatever happens is down to me. I cannot avoid what ultimately happens so what I have left and what I had I will do it my way as some singer once said. So far it has been pretty damn good except for a couple of years when I listened to a complete A**HOLE, my bad and it wont happen again.
 
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Fred Blogs said:
F**K to them telling me what I can eat or can't eat and whether I have to have a jab for a complete scam. I'll eat what I want when I want and if I think it needs more salt or more anything for that matter I will lash it on regardless. I'm 74 and I have to die of something. We come in to the world from the between the legs of a screaming female and we leave quite possibly screaming in pain. There is no god or supreme entity although governments like to think of themselves as divine so whatever happens is down to me. I cannot avoid what ultimately happens so what I have left and what I had I will do it my way as some singer once said. So far it has been pretty damn good except for a couple of years when I listened to a complete A**HOLE, my bad and it wont happen again.
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Yes. You have that CHOICE to put more salt on, and eat what you want.

It isn't forced on you, like it was.
 
gas112 said:
no worries a couple of years of labour in power people will be too poor to afford food ;)
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the ship has sailed on that matey


people have become too poor to afford food due to 14 years of Tory power
In 2022/23 there were 7.2 million people, or 11% of the UK population, in households experiencing food poverty

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Damning analysis reveals shocking rise in child poverty under Tories​

'Under the Conservatives we have seen a huge rise in working families being pushed into poverty'

14 Years of Conservatives: low investment, policy mistakes, political instability, and Brexit, have combined to hold back growth by more than in many comparable nations.

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The Conservatives and the Economy, 2010–24 | Institute for Fiscal Studies

This chapter documents the course of the economy over the last 14 years for the forthcoming book 'The Conservative Effect, 2010-2024'.
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In charts: the legacy of 14 years of Conservative rule

Next UK government must grapple with series of challenges in a nation still reeling from austerity, Covid and Brexit
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Child poverty in working households soared by 1,350 a week since Tories came to power, report finds​

New analysis from the TUC shows that there are now three million children in working households living in poverty – and it calls for action from politicians to tackle child poverty in the UK
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Child poverty in working households soared by 1,350 a week since Tories came to power

New analysis from the TUC shows that there are now three million children in working households living in poverty.
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Poverty rates grew rapidly under Margaret Thatcher’s administration and remained high, with only small decreases in subsequent administrations​

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UK Poverty 2024: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK

The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK
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The UK experiencing the biggest rise in poverty since Margaret Thatcher was in power​

More than a third of UK children are now living in poverty.​


inews.co.uk

Biggest rise in poverty recorded since Margaret Thatcher was in power

More than a third of UK children are now living below the line, and the poverty rate has risen to 23.2 per cent in the biggest jump since 1988, according to new projections from the Resolution Foundation.
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Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people​

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Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people

When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut
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Is life in the UK really as bad as the numbers suggest?
Yes, it is the past 15 years have been a disappointment on a scale we could hardly have imagined
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Is life in the UK really as bad as the numbers suggest? Yes, it is

The past 15 years have been a disappointment on a scale we could hardly have imagined
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Fred Blogs said:
F**K to them telling me what I can eat or can't eat and whether I have to have a jab for a complete scam. I'll eat what I want when I want and if I think it needs more salt or more anything for that matter I will lash it on regardless. I'm 74 and I have to die of something. We come in to the world from the between the legs of a screaming female and we leave quite possibly screaming in pain. There is no god or supreme entity although governments like to think of themselves as divine so whatever happens is down to me. I cannot avoid what ultimately happens so what I have left and what I had I will do it my way as some singer once said. So far it has been pretty damn good except for a couple of years when I listened to a complete A**HOLE, my bad and it wont happen again.
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Oh dear, something has triggered you


I bet you are currently sitting watching GBnews eating a large bacon buttie and smoking a fag whilst you get angry about foreigners coming here

be careful you dont become a statistic, theres a good chap
 
Fred Blogs said:
F**K to them telling me what I can eat or can't eat
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The scheme did not do that.

It simply recommended that manufacturers reduce the amount of added salt in prepared food.

Such as a factory meat pie or a bottle of ketchup.
 
Back to the op .

It’s all very well reducing salt but unless our general diets improve AND people, especially the young get more exercise, nothing will change

You just have to look in other people’s trolleys to see nothing has really changed
 
Murdochcat said:
Back to the op .

It’s all very well reducing salt but unless our general diets improve AND people, especially the young get more exercise, nothing will change

You just have to look in other people’s trolleys to see nothing has really changed
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It's still better to remove it than not

Some (a lot) of people rely on processed food because of price/convenience, so removing as much as possible, helps.
 
Lets deal with sugar now and force everyone to have aspartame instead
 
carmanmemoranda said:
It's still better to remove it than not

Some (a lot) of people rely on processed food because of price/convenience, so removing as much as possible, helps.
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You miss the point, by all means reduce or remove the fat, but unless other dietary and exercise issues are addressed little is likely to change,

Fatty processed foods are very bad for you
 
Murdochcat said:
You miss the point, by all means reduce or remove the fat, but unless other dietary and exercise issues are addressed little is likely to change,

Fatty processed foods are very bad for you
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No. I got the point

As Tesco say, every little, helps. You may have missed that bit
 
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