10 to 16 March 2014
World Salt Awareness Week is marked from 11 - 17 March. The week aims to make members of the public aware that salt can damage their health and is linked to serious health conditions such as stroke and heart failure.There is also increasing evidence supporting links between our current high salt diets and the onset of stomach cancer, osteoporosis, obesity and kidney stones and kidney disease.
The research shows that men eat more salt than women and on average have a higher blood pressure than women, particularly at a younger age, and are less likely to have their blood pressure measured, to take action to reduce it when it is raised or to take blood pressure lowering drugs.
Source: World Action on salt and health
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