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Health Canada aims to cut Canadians’ salt intake
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
May 31, 2010
The Sodium Reduction Strategy, to be released in July, will rely on the industry to follow voluntary reduction targets aimed at slashing the average Canadian’s daily consumption of sodium from 3,400 mg to 2,300 mg by 2016. Public health officials, researchers and doctors have lauded the strategy… as a good first response to the mounting concern over salt in our daily diet. But many also question whether voluntary sodium reduction targets go far enough in protecting Canadians from too much salt’s harmful effects.
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