Salt Intake
SALT AND YOUR HEALTH
Salt, just like sugar, is an inexpensive way to make food taste good. One often observes people sprinkling salt over their food before tasting it, and some researchers suggest that the high consumption of salt is a habit, or even an addiction, learnt in...
WAYS TO REDUCE SALT INTAKE
The salt you sprinkle on your food is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of your daily intake of sodium, one of the major components of salt. Heart health authorities suggest that more than 70% of our daily intake of sodium is hidden in the packaged and prepared...
Salt intake – new regulations by SA Government
Regulations relating to the reduction of sodium in certain foodstuffs came into effect on 30 June 2016. Further reductions in the sodium content of these same foodstuffs will come into effect on 30 June 2019. (The Department of Health published these regulations in...