Mobilising the Americas for dietary salt reduction

Campbell, Norm R.C.; Legowski, Barbara; Legetić, Branka

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(10)60489-8

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“…Members from the Canadian government are members of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Expert Group on Sodium Reduction, the government has helped support some of the PAHO Expert Group meetings and co-hosted one of the World Health Organization Platforms on Dietary sodium [31]. …”

Section: Canadian Federal Government Activities To Reduce Dietary mentioning

confidence: 99%

Canadian Initiatives to Prevent Hypertension by Reducing Dietary Sodium

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Hypertension is the leading risk for premature death in the world. High dietary sodium is an important contributor to increased blood pressure and is strongly associated with other important diseases (e.g., gastric cancer, calcium containing kidney stones, osteoporosis, asthma and obesity). The average dietary sodium intake in Canada is approximately 3400 mg/day. It is estimated that 30% of hypertension, more than 10% of cardiovascular events and 1.4 billion dollars/year in health care expenses are caused by this high level of intake in Canada. Since 2006, Canada has had a focused and evolving effort to reduce dietary sodium based on actions from Non Governmental Organizations (NGO), and Federal and Provincial/Territorial Government actions. NGOs initiated Canadian sodium reduction programs by developing a policy statement outlining the health issue and calling for governmental, NGO and industry action, developing and disseminating an extensive health care professional education program including resources for patient education, developing a public awareness campaign through extensive media releases and publications in the lay press. The Federal Government responded by striking a Intersectoral Sodium Work Group to develop recommendations on how to implement Canada’s dietary reference intake values for dietary sodium and by developing timelines and targets for foods to be reduced in sodium, assessing key research gaps with funding for targeted dietary sodium based research, developing plans for public education and for conducting evaluation of the program to reduce dietary sodium. While food regulation is a Federal Government responsibility Provincial and Territorial governments indicated reducing dietary sodium needed to be a priority. Federal and Provincial Ministers of Health have endorsed a target to reduce the average consumption of sodium to 2300 mg/day by 2016 and the Deputy Ministers of Health have tasked a joint committee to review the recommendations of the Sodium Work Group and report back to them.

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Section: Canadian Federal Government Activities To Reduce Dietary mentioning

confidence: 99%

Canadian Initiatives to Prevent Hypertension by Reducing Dietary Sodium

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“…Concerted efforts are now being made in many countries to reduce salt consumption [11]. Because the primary food vehicle for iodine fortification is salt, concern has been expressed that decreasing salt consumption will increase the risk of iodine deficiency.…”

Section: What: Universal Salt Iodization or Fortification Of Individumentioning

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Iodine fortification

Charlton

Skeaff

2011

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

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Ameliorating iodine deficiency on a population level in countries with mild-to-moderate deficiency is warranted. Risk of both inadequate and excess iodine intakes requires regular monitoring to accompany fortification programmes as well as strategies to address subpopulations at risk. More sensitive indicators of recent iodine status are needed to rapidly assess the impact of fortification on improving the status.

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“…Dietary interventions offer effective and cost‐effective choices for reducing chronic diseases. This is best exemplified by the World Health Organization and World Economic Forums' identification of dietary sodium reduction as a ‘best buy' for lessening the increasing costs of chronic diseases (Whelton et al ., ); it is well established that modest reductions in sodium intake result in substantial health benefits; in particular, a reduction in high blood pressure, which is responsible for 13% of deaths globally (Meneton et al ., ; He & MacGregor, ; Strazzullo et al ., ; World Health Organization, ; Campbell et al ., ).…”

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confidence: 97%