No Need to Pickle Children: Get Big Food to Cut Salt for Better Health

No Need to Pickle Children: Get Big Food to Cut Salt for Better Health
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The World Health Organisation and governments around the world make clear recommendations about maximum salt consumption for kids. But everywhere they are measured, these safe levels are being exceeded.

A recent national nutrition survey in Australia found almost every child aged between two and eight exceeded recommended salt consumption levels. Worse still, children were more likely to exceed recommended intakes than adults. But even these estimates are rosy because salt added during cooking or as seasoning at the table is not usually recorded.

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