Too much salt in ready-made Sunday lunches

See BBC News report. This is another instance of Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) homing in on a particular example of salty food and highlighting the worst excesses of the Food Industy's responsibility for that high salt content.

These groups of people are vulnerable to salt. They need to minimise their salt intake.

Too much salt in children's meals in UK hospitals

Children need to be protected from eating food high in salt because it can do life-long harm to their health, especially if they develop a taste for it, which so many of them do. Yet research by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash) has found that children are in particular danger from very salty meals they are served in hospital, where they should, surely, be safer. - See the BBC News report.

When children become fat it is essentially because they are eating salty food. Children are especially vulnerable to salt because of their small size and small blood volume, and because their blood vessels are weaker than those of adults. Salt, and the water it attracts to it, can more easily distend weak blood vessels than fully mature ones. The resulting increase in blood volume and other fluid retention results in weight gain, as well as higher blood pressure and many other undesirable consequences. The smaller the child, the less salt they should have - and a baby, of course, should have no salt at all. - Babies can die if they are fed salty food. See Children and Obesity and Salt in Food.

Reductil (Meridia) increases risk of heart attack and stroke.

See report. This pharmaceutical drug is taken by people who want to lose excess weight. It is not very successful at this, but actually, there is no need to take drugs or take risks with your health to lose weight. Nor do you need to eat less and go hungry to lose weight. If you cut down on salt and salty food you will lose weight easily, safely and fast. - Try it! - You will feel so much better and benefit your health in many ways apart from losing excess weight. - Some of the benefits are that you will lower high blood pressure and high cholesterol, lower your risk of heart attack, heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and cancer. You will have more energy and stamina and you will sleep better.