Salt Awareness Week 2014 Media Coverage

9 March 2014

TV

• Alan Titchmarsh Show
• BBC Breakfast
• BBC News
• ITV Daybreak
• ITV News

Radio

• BBC Radio 4 You and Yours
• BBC Radio Gloucestershire
• BBC Radio 5 Live
• BBC Radio Scotland

National Newspapers

Daily Express 'Peril of everyday food that's laden with hidden salt' page 24 (10th March)
Mirror 'App cuts salt by two-thirds' (10th March)
Metro 'Salty foods sorted by app' page 6 (10th March)
The Times 'Salt app to help shoppers' page 22 (10th March)
Daily Mail '3 in 4 children are at risk from eating too much salt' page 3 (11th March)
Metro 'Warning about child salt intake' (11th March)
The Daily Telegraph 'Too much salt in children's cereal' page 12 (11th March)

Online

Salt Targets 

Mail Online - 'Top doctor claims the Government's failure to cut salt out of diets has killed 12,000 Britons' (9th March)
Gulf News - '12,000 may have died due to salt policy in UK' (9th March)
Bakery Info - 'New salt targets challenging' (11th March)

SaltSwitch 

Daily Express - 'Health peril of everyday food that’s laden with hidden salt' (10th March)
Evening Standard - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
ITV Online - 'App launched to help cut salt inside shoppers' food' (10th March)
The Courier - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
Huffpost Lifestyle - 'How To Reduce The Amount Of Salt You Eat: Use This New App While Grocery Shopping' (10th March)
Irish Examiner - 'App to help shoppers switch to less salty foods' (10th March)
Hartlepool Mail - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
Yahoo Online - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
The Drum - 'New Diet App is worth its salt' (10th March)
The Star - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
Cambridge News - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
Ormskirk and Skelmersdale Advertiser - 'App Launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
Belfast Telegraph - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
The Sunday Post - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
The News UK - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
Topix Food - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
Nets247.com - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
One News Page - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
News Locker - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March)
UK News - 'App launched to cut hidden salt' (10th March) 
Saga - 'Check food labels to avoid eating dangerously high levels of salt' (11th March)
Ashbourne News Telegraph - 'Cut down on salt for healthier lifestyle' (11th March) 
Female First - 'National Salt Awareness Week: Less Salt Please' (13th March)
First News - 'New app helps healthy shoppers' (14th March)
Men’s Health - 'How to cut your salt intake' (14th March)

Salt Intake of Children and Adolescents in South London

Mail Online - 'Three in four children are at risk from eating too much salt because of high levels in bread and breakfast cereals' (10th March)
Science Daily - 'Bread, cereal drive UK children's high salt diet' (10th March)
The Information Daily - 'High levels of salt found in bread and cereal diets of children' (10th March)
Individual - 'Bread, cereal drive UK children’s high salt diet' (10th March)
The Telegraph - 'Children eat too much salt, researchers find' (11th March)
The Guardian - 'Children eating unhealthy amount of salt, study says' (11th March)
BBC online - 'Children’s diets far too salty' (11th March)
ITV online - 'Children eating too much salt, study shows' (11th March)
ITV online - 'Warning over children's salt consumption' (11th March)
NHS Choices - 'Children's diets contain 'too much salt' (11th March)
Food Navigator - 'Bread and cereal highest contributors to children’s salt intake: Study' (11th March)
Bakery and Snacks - 'Bread and cereal highest contributors to children's salt intake: Study' (11th March)
Boots WebMD - 'Bread and cereals boost kids' salt intake' (11th March)
Blue & Green Tomorrow - 'British children eating too much salt, says study' (11th March)
Only my health - 'Children eat far more salt than what they should' (11th March)
Highlight Press - 'Most kids eat too much salt, 36% comes from cereals and bread, researchers warn' (11th March)
The Voice - 'British children eating too much salt' (11th March)
Total Health - 'Children in the UK are eating too much salt a new study has shown' (12th March)
The Bolton News - 'The hidden danger of salt in everyday foods' (14th March)
Food Manufacture - 'Top healthy food trends: low sodium at forefront' (14th March)