It’s time to swap out the salt!

Regularly eating too much salt can increase our risk of developing high blood pressure and heart disease. No matter our age, gender or ethnicity, everyone can benefit from reducing their salt intake. The sooner we switch to a lower-salt diet, the less strain we place on our hearts, and with rising blood pressure levels in children, it's clear that salt consumption isn't just a concern for exclusively older generations.

Throughout the week we will be highlighting the health impacts of salt and calling on the food industry and out-of-home sector to do more to reduce the amount of salt added into our foods. We will also be encouraging the public to make simple swaps and changes to their eating, cooking, and purchasing habits to reduce their salt and improve their heart health. 

Available Resources

Poster

In order to help you run your own Salt Awareness events, we are pleased to be able to offer you our '5 Ways to 5 Grams' poster!

Download as a PDF: '5 Ways to 5 Grams' Salt Awareness Week Poster [PDF 482KB]

If you would like to order a translated version of the poster, please contact wash@qmul.ac.uk by 14th March.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Media Images

Toolkits and Information 

Salt Reduction Toolkit for South East Asia Region

Salt Reduction Toolkit for Eastern Mediterranean Region

Fact sheet on salt reduction in low- and middle-income countries

Policy resource highlighting ‘what works’ for salt reduction

Low salt recipes

Blogs

Information on our salt reduction projects

Global salt content in food product surveys

 

World Health Organisation

SHAKE Technical Package

Updated PAHO Regional Sodium Reduction Targets

Global sodium benchmarks for different food categories

Sodium Country Score Card

Accelerating salt reduction in Europe

PAHO Salt-Smart Americas: A Guide for Country-Level Action

PAHO A review of methods to determine the main sources of salt in the diet

WHO EMRO How to obtain measures of population-level sodium intake in 24-hour urine samples

Using dietary intake modelling to achieve population salt reduction - A guide to developing a country-specific salt reduction model

A Guide for Setting Targets and Timelines to Reduce the Salt Content of Food

 

Call to Action

World Hypertension League/Resolve to Save Lives/International Society of Hypertension Global Call to Action on Dietary Sodium

 

Other Resources

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Global sodium reduction strategies course

Resolve to Save Lives Sodium Reduction Resource Library

Setting targets for salt levels in foods: A five-step approach for low- and middle-income countries