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Reducing salt in food ‘makes no sense’

by The Salt Institute - October 1, 2013

Reducing salt in food ‘makes no sense’
At the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2013 Congress, researchers from McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, found that only certain subgroups will actually experience benefits from restricting the sodium in their diet and concluded that the sweeping recommendations to reduce salt were pointless. A report on this work by Shelly Wood, “Population-wide Sodium Guidance ‘Makes No Sense’ in Most Countries” makes it clear that the majority of scientific evidence, does not support people reducing salt in their food. This paper follows several other similar papers over the last three years that indicate the least negative health impacts fall in the consumption range of 2,800 – 6,000 mg of sodium day, well above the current recommendations of 1,500 – 2,300 mg sodium per day.