Arguments have shown that if we could take
our average intake of salt from 3300 - 4000 to 2000 mg per day, we could save around 150,000 lives from a premature death each year (in America alone).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reported that
the average intake of salt (per day) in the United States is 3,400 mg.
Not exact matches
An increase
of an additional 7g (1.2 teaspoons)
of salt above the
average intake was associated with an increase in systolic blood pressure
of 3.7 mmHg.
Despite efforts over the past several decades to reduce dietary
intake of sodium, a main component
of table
salt, the
average American adult still consumes 3,400 mg or more
of sodium a day — equivalent to about 1 1/2 teaspoons
of salt.
The
average population
salt intake was calculated from urine collected over a 24 hour period in almost 3000 people who were part
of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey between 2003 and 2011.
First, one 24 - hour urine collection might be insufficient to characterize an individual's habitual
salt intake, but it does accurately reflect the
average salt consumption
of groups
of subjects.42 Thus, our analyses based on tertiles
of 24 - hour urinary sodium should be less vulnerable to the high intraindividual variability
of sodium excretion.
An AI is specifically defined as the
intake found in a healthy population, but no First World population has a sodium
intake anywhere as low as the 2004/2005 IOM targets.2 In comparison to the sodium adequate
intake of 1500 mg per day for adults, the
average sodium
intake in the U.S. and Canada is 3300 mg per day (8.3 grams
salt or just over one and one - half teaspoons).
RECENT STUDY ON ADVERSE EFFECTS
OF LOW SODIUM INTAKE About the same time that U.S. health officials announced their new initiative to reduce salt intake, The Lancet published a large population - based study which showed persuasively that the risk of mortality and serious cardiovascular events increases significantly when salt intake drops below 3000 mg per day (two - thirds teaspoon) in an adult of average weight.3 The study also found that sodium intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hypertensio
OF LOW SODIUM
INTAKE About the same time that U.S. health officials announced their new initiative to reduce salt intake, The Lancet published a large population - based study which showed persuasively that the risk of mortality and serious cardiovascular events increases significantly when salt intake drops below 3000 mg per day (two - thirds teaspoon) in an adult of average weight.3 The study also found that sodium intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hyperte
INTAKE About the same time that U.S. health officials announced their new initiative to reduce
salt intake, The Lancet published a large population - based study which showed persuasively that the risk of mortality and serious cardiovascular events increases significantly when salt intake drops below 3000 mg per day (two - thirds teaspoon) in an adult of average weight.3 The study also found that sodium intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hyperte
intake, The Lancet published a large population - based study which showed persuasively that the risk
of mortality and serious cardiovascular events increases significantly when salt intake drops below 3000 mg per day (two - thirds teaspoon) in an adult of average weight.3 The study also found that sodium intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hypertensio
of mortality and serious cardiovascular events increases significantly when
salt intake drops below 3000 mg per day (two - thirds teaspoon) in an adult of average weight.3 The study also found that sodium intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hyperte
intake drops below 3000 mg per day (two - thirds teaspoon) in an adult
of average weight.3 The study also found that sodium intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hypertensio
of average weight.3 The study also found that sodium
intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hyperte
intake in excess
of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hypertensio
of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons
salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hypertension.
According to World Health Organization,
Salt Fact Sheet, most
of the world's populations consume on
average 9 — 12 grams per day, or around twice the recommended maximum level
of intake which WHO places at 5 grams per day.
For perspective, the UK
average salt intake is 8.1 gm / day according to the consumption of both added salt and table salt has been reduced: Average salt intake in the UK measured in random samples of adults has fallen from 9.5 g to 8.1 g pe
average salt intake is 8.1 gm / day according to the consumption
of both added
salt and table
salt has been reduced:
Average salt intake in the UK measured in random samples of adults has fallen from 9.5 g to 8.1 g pe
Average salt intake in the UK measured in random samples
of adults has fallen from 9.5 g to 8.1 g per day):