Hormonal
Population-wide reduction of average sodium intake from 9.5 g/d to 6 g/d through industry reformulation and public awareness campaigns significantly lowers average blood pressure, thereby reducing the incidence of cardiovascular disease and stroke.
To improve your heart health, aim to reduce your daily salt intake to 6 grams. You can do this by choosing foods with lower salt content, checking front-of-pack labels for traffic light indicators, and gradually reducing added salt in cooking to allow your taste buds to adapt over 8 weeks.
a reduction in the average salt intake of the UK population would proportionally lower average blood pressure levels and confer significant public health benefits by contributing to a decrease in the burden of CVD.
Why this rating
Based on large-scale population surveys (NDNS) and industry monitoring, though causality in observational population data is harder to prove than in RCTs.
Source
Reducing the population's sodium intake: the UK Food Standards Agency's salt reduction programme
L. Wyness et al. · Public Health Nutrition · 2011
DOI 10.1017/s1368980011000966
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