Salt in the News 2019
December
- The Hill: Pass less salt and when you pass it, make it potassium salt (17th December)
- The Lancet: The double burden of malnutrition (16th December)
November
- CSPI: Changing the Channels: How Big Media Helps Big Food Target Kids (and What to Do about It) (4th November)
October
- AP News: Mexico passes reforms aimed at combatting obesity (23rd October)
- The Washington Post: Sweet excess: How the baby food industry hooks toddlers on sugar, salt and fat (17th October)
September
- World Hypertension League: Salt shakers should carry tobacco-style health warning, say experts (27th September)
- Queen Mary University of London and The George Institute of Global Health: Sauces in China 4.4 times saltier than similar sauces sold in the UK (24th September)
- Food Navigator Asia: Slashing salt: Bahrain follows Kuwait and Qatar in move to reduce levels in baked goods (11th September)
- UAE Health: Coming soon: Colour-coded nutrition labels for packaged food in UAE (11th September)
- The George Institute for Global Health: How your meat-free favourites could be tricking you (10th September)
- Bangkokpost: Tax on high salt content dusted off (10th September)
- New Research: Potential impact on prevalence of obesity in the UK of a 20% price increase in high sugar snacks: modelling study (4th September)
- European Society of Cardiology: Community based salt substitution programme lowers blood pressure (2nd September)
- Global Week for Action on NCDS and UHC (2nd - 9th September)
August
- WASH Research: Reducing population salt intake - An update on latest evidence and global action (26th August)
- NY Times: Our food is killing too many of us - improving American nutrition would make the biggest impact on our health care (26th August)
- George Institute: British food crowned the healthiest in major global survey (21st August)
- The Sydney Morning Herald: Government orders review to weigh up 'added sugar' labels (19th August)
- WASH Article: There is no great salt debate: we should be consuming less (12th August)
- Food Navigator: Are 'reduced sodium' labels worth their salt? Study (7th August)
- Food Navigator: Healthy China: Ambitious plans to cut dietary oil, salt and sugar intake nationwide by 2030 (5th August)
July
- WASH Research: Formulas used to estimate salt intake alter sodium-mortality relationship (29th July)
- WASH Research: Salt intake in China among highest in the world for the past four decades (12th July)
- WASH Comment: Professor Feng He and WASH Chairman Graham MacGregor awarded research grant (9th July)
June
- Food Navigator: Consumer groups increase calls for mandatory labelling as Nestlé adopts Nutri-Score (26th June)
- New Research: Effects of the DASH Diet and Sodium Intake on Bloating - Results From the DASH–Sodium Trial (17th June)
- New Research: Dietary sources of salt intake in adults and older people: a population-based study in a Brazilian town (June)
May
- Food Ingredients First: Keeping salt reduction on the agenda: Reduced sodium solutions in high demand for NPD (13th May)
- Food Navigator USA: Health advocacy groups, top food brands, urge Health Canada to permit term 'potassium salt' on food labels (6th May)
- New Research: Salt content of instant noodles in Malaysia: a cross-sectional study (1st May)
April
- Branding in Asia: Earth Day Campaign Puts Plastic Miniatures in Salt Grinders to Raise Awareness (22nd April)
- Food Dive: Will voluntary salt-reduction guidelines be derailed by last-minute lobbying? (16th April)
- Politico: Trump push to finish Obama crackdown on salt prompts stealth lobbying (12th April)
- WASH comment: Reaction to The Lancet's Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: The Global Burden of Disease Study (4th April)
- New research: Highlighting of Urinary Sodium and Potassium among Indonesian Schoolchildren Aged 9–12 Years: The Contribution of School Food (3rd April)
- New research: 24-h urinary sodium to potassium ratio and its association with obesity in children and adolescents (April)
March
- New research: Knowledge and behaviors related to dietary salt and sources of dietary sodium in north India (27th March)
- New research: Salt-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors on Efate Island, Vanuatu (21st March)
- CSPI: Salt Institute to dissolve (6th March)
- Cape Town etc: South Africans still clueless about salt content in food (6th March)
- The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine: Sodium and Potassium Dietary Reference Intake Values Updated in New Report; Introduces New Category for Sodium Based on Chronic Disease Risk Reduction (5th March)
- WASH Release: NEW International Survey Reveals Shocking Levels of Salt STILL Present in Children’s Meals and Calls for More ACTION on Salt Now (5th March)
- The George Institute: Fast food kid's meals chock full of salt (5th March)
February
- The Costa Rica News: Costa Ricans Consume Almost Double Salt of What They Should (16th February)
- New research: Potential impact of a modest reduction in salt intake on blood pressure, cardiovascular disease burden and premature mortality: a modelling study (14th February)
- New research: Salt Preference and Ability to Discriminate between Salt Content of Two Commercially Available Products of Australian Primary Schoolchildren (13th February)
- New research: Sources of Dietary Salt in North and South India Estimated from 24 Hour Dietary Recall (1st February)
January
- The Nation: Govt urged to move people from high-salt diets (31st January)
- World Cancer Research Fund: Lessons on implementing a robust front-of-pack food label (30th January)
- The Peninsula: MoPH launches new initiative to reduce fat, sugar & salt use (30th January)
- Food & Drink International: Third of stores putting high sugar, salt and fat products on special offer (22nd January)
- Government of Canada: Canada's Food Guide (21st January)
- New Research: Sodium and Potassium Intake, Knowledge Attitudes and Behaviour Towards Salt Consumption Amongst Adults in Podgorica, Montenegro (13th January)
- UK Department of Health and Social Care: Consultation: Restricting promotions of food and drink that is high in fat, sugar and salt (12th January)
- New research: Cardiovascular Diseases Deaths Attributable to High Sodium Intake in Shandong Province, China (8th January)
- New research: Association of usual 24-h sodium excretion with measures of adiposity among adults in the United States: NHANES, 2014 (8th January)