Cutting salt ‘reduces heart risk’

04/22/2007

BBC News -- Eating less salt can cut cardiovascular disease risk by a quarter and fatal heart disease by a fifth, work shows.

The ideal daily intake of salt is no more than six grams and ministers want everyone to achieve this by 2010. (6 gm is about 1 teaspoon).

Experts already know that too much salt can raise blood pressure and high blood pressure increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.

The British Medical Journal study now gives the evidence behind this link and quantifies how much harm salt can do.

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