In a new review, a team of experts from Columbia University found “two distinct bodies of scholarship” on the matter – those who believe reducing salt intake will improve the overall health of the population, and those who don’t.
Watching your salt intake has become one of the core pieces of dietary advice in the UK, and in the US, New York is requiring by law that restaurants label salt content in food
So it will be a surprise to many to find that just 54% of the 269 academic reports included in the review found in favour of a salt reduction hypothesis. Of the rest, 33% concluded that reducing salt makes no difference to longterm health, while 13% were inconclusive.
Report co-author Ludovic Trinquart said: “We simply found no definitive proof that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks or strokes for people with normal blood pressure.”
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