Salt in the News 2017
December
- Huffington Post: 'Nigella's Christmas Table' leaves viewers shocked over Lawson's liberal use of salt - with comment from CASH Campaign Director Katharine Jenner (12th December)
- CASH Release: CASH Release: NEW Survey Finds Shocking Amounts of Salt in Popular Branded Sausages (6 December 2017)
November
- CASH Comment:Kellogg's to cut salt and sugar in cereals as it launches new Better Starts Plan (30 November 2017)
- Food Navigator: Mass media a force for good (and bad) in childhood obesity, report says (27 November 2017)Food Navigator: Mass media a force for good (and bad) in childhood obesity, report says (27 November 2017)
- Daily Mail: Is your favourite on the list? Coffee shop breakfasts with more salt than EIGHT bags of crisps (27 November 2017)
- CASH Comment:Joint report from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) and Committee on Toxicity (COT) on the use of potassium-based sodium replacers (22 November 2017)
- The New York Times: Clearing up the confusion about salt (20 November 2017)
October
- CASH Release:NEW CASH Survey Reveals Shockingly High Levels of Salt in Pesto as 2017 Salt Targets are Ignored (4 October 2017)
September
- Nestle: Cereal Partners Worldwide to adopt colour-coded labelling on Nestle and General Mills breakfast Cereals in the UK (29 September 2017)
- The Irish Times: Ban on high sugar, fat and salt foods ahead for school meals plan (25 September 2017)
- The Lancet: Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (16 September 2017)
August
- New Research: High salt intake doubles risk of heart failure - abstract presented at ESC Congress in Barcelona (28 August 2017)
- The Times: Gluten-Free Snacks are Five Times Saltier (12 August 2017)
July
- CASH Release: CASH Chairman Professor MacGregor and CASH Member Dr Feng He to Establish Action on Salt China(14 July 2017)
June
- New Study: A Systematic Review of Fatalities Related to Acute Ingestion of Salt. A Need for Warning Labels? (23 June 2017)
May
- New Research: Systematic review of dietary salt reduction policies: Evidence for an effectiveness hierarchy? (18 May 2017)
- The George Institute: Australians consume more salt than they think (17 May 2017)
- Food Manufacturer: 'Forgotten killer' salt set for health agenda return (9 May 2017)
- New Research: Sources of Sodium in US Adults from 3 Geographic Regions (8 May 2017)
April
- CASH Release: Prof Graham MacGregor, CASH Chairman, Featured on The Life Scientific(25 April 2017)
March
- World Hypertension League: Understanding the science that supports population-wide salt reduction programs (27 March 2017)
- BBC News: Night-time loo trips 'linked to salt in diet' (26 March 2017)
- Mail Online: One slice of 'healthy bread' contains TWICE as much salt as a packet of chips, study finds (21 March 2017)
- CASH: CASH Warns of Thousands of Unneccessary Deaths from Salt - And Urges Public Health England to Take Immediate Action(20 March 2017)
February
- AoS and CASH:Breakfast cereals contain shocking levels of sugar (up to 35%) in spite of manufacturers' claims over the last 20 years (8 February 2017)
January
- New Research: Estimating the impact and equity of UK salt reduction policies on primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and gastric cancer (GCa) in England (24 January 2017)
- The Express: http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/food/753931/health-warning-salt-level-soup (15 January 2017)