High salt intake and hypertension

The resignation of the UK’s food tsar in protest at the government’s failure to reform the food system comes around the same time as Iacobucci reports that adults who are apparently at low risk are more likely to have undiagnosed hypertension.12Iacobucci’s article was published in the run up to world salt awareness week. Younger, healthier adults are likely to consume an average of 3393 mg of salt per day (range 2000-5000 mg) according to the US 2015-16 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Half of sodium intake came from pizza, Mexican dishes, sandwiches (including burgers), cold cuts, soups, snacks, and cheese.Taste preferences formed during childhood are often carried into adulthood. We are going to find more and more teenagers and younger “healthier” adults with raised blood pressure unless government legislates that less salt is added to processed food.
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