Salt Awareness Week May 2023

Heart attacks and strokes are the biggest causes of death and disability in the UK, with two people suffering from these often-debilitating conditions every 5 minutes. The strain this is having, not only on the individual and their families, but on our struggling NHS cannot be ignored.  

Most cases are entirely preventable and so it’s vital we all take measures to improve our health and prevent these events from happening in the first place. It’s a little-known fact that eating less salt is one of the quickest and most effective ways of improving our health, with just 1 less ‘pinch’ a day saving over 6,000 lives every year in the UK. But how can we cut back on our salt, when everything we buy is full of it?  

From sliced bread to biscuits, Friday night takeaways to ‘healthy’ salads, everything has added salt. In fact, three quarters of the salt we eat is already in the foods we buy, and it’s impossible to take it out once it’s been added in.  

Find out more at https://www.actiononsalt.org.uk