Salt reduction in UK food
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Isn’t that chart up to 2011
You mean, an achievement of the Labour government.
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...www.nature.com
Next stop, obesity.
Sounds like "bad science". I don't recall a mass reduction of salt levels in 2003 (ownwards). That said, I consume more salt than I should...
edit- i forgot that the "general" section of this forum is full of people trying to pin their political flags to their proverbial flag. My bad for posting...
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Then you should be grateful I pointed it out to you.
Sorry mate. I am gonna stick with the "bad science". I guess that, politically we might be aligned but I don't want the give the nutters an excuse to shout at pigeons.
you sure about that , that they never added substitutes for flavouring and preservative qualities in a number of reduced salt products
The other factor is that Cameron cut back hugely on public health investments, whose local initiatives had very effective smoking and dietary campaigns going, so political as well as dietary
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