The 1st – 7th February is World Salt Awareness Week, which has become an annual event since 2005. The focus of the week this year is ‘Salt and Your Health’. We are all increasingly aware of the warnings about reducing salt in our diets. Clear labelling means we know much more about the amount of salt there is in our processed food. The much used words ‘reduced salt’ tell us the product has been developed and improved and of course has less salt.
Salt can and does damage our health it is linked with health conditions such as strokes and heart failure. As well there is increased evidence linking high salt diets with stomach cancer, osteoporosis, obesity, kidney stones and kidney disease. But of course, we do need some salt in our diets.
I don’t watch very many ‘celebrity chef’ programmes, I am however a great fan of Rob Rees our local chef not just his food but also of course the excellent work that he does to improve health through food.
I hope that this week everyone will take that little bit more time to read food labels and check out the salt levels in their food and have a happy balanced diet.
Posted by David Drew on Sunday, 7th Feb 2010