I am a Research Assistant within The George Institute for Global Health’s Food Policy division. In this role I coordinate the WHO CC website, bi-monthly newsletter and I support the team with general and financial administration. I also support various salt-reduction projects such as product reformulation in Vietnam including engagement of government, markets and consumers, a community-level behaviour […]
A study by Juraschek, et al published in Hypertension conducted a trial using the DASH (dietary approaches to stop hypertension) to assess whether a reduced sodium diet has any adverse effects such as causing weight gain. To read more, click here.
A study recently published by Peniamina, R et al in Nutrients compared the use of three different diet assessment methods for potassium, sodium and iodine in children in New Zealand. The accuracy of diet records, weighed food records and 24-hour urine samples were compared for a sample of 84 nine to 11 year olds. They […]
Bolton, KA et al recently published data on dietary sodium intake and sources of dietary sodium from dietary recalls in the Victorian adult population. Salt intake from 24hr urine collections (n=338) was estimated as 8.9g/day after adjustment for non-urinary losses. Estimated salt intake from 24hr diet recall was lower, at 6.9g/day. It was estimated that […]
Published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Anand et al conducted a cross-sectional study using data from 24 hour urine samples and dietary recall to test the hypothesis of whether potassium intake reduces the effects of a high-sodium diet. Participants were adult males and females from rural and urban areas in India. 24 hour […]
A cross-sectional study conducted by Idelson et al evaluated salt-related knowledge and behaviour and their relationship to adherence to a Mediterranean diet in the Italian general population using a self-administered questionnaire conducted as a free online survey. Data from the 11,618 questionnaires found women had a higher level of salt knowledge than men while adolescents […]
Published in Nutrients, Carrillo-Larco and Bernabe-Ortiz conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate sodium and salt consumption in Latin America and the Caribbean. The review included 15 studies for qualitative synthesis and 18 studies for quantitative synthesis. Six studies collected 24 h urine samples while the others collected either 12 h, overnight, or spot […]
Published in Advances in Nutrition, Bhat et al conducted a global systematic review of dietary salt sources. Between 1975 and 2018, 80 studies (74 peer-reviewed) from 34 countries were identified. Discretionary sources of salt contributed to more than half daily intake in at least eight countries, and more than a quarter of daily intake in […]
In January 2020, Abdelfettah Derouiche presented recent salt reduction research from Morocco at the European Days of the French Society of Cardiology Congress in Paris. In his presentation he reflected on a five-year awareness raising campaign that aimed to encourage bakeries to reduce the amount of sodium chloride used when making white bread, along with […]
A new low sodium bread dough formula has been developed by researchers from the University of Manitoba and Canada Bread. The sodium content of the bread baked by the researchers was reduced to 380 mg/100g with the new formula, down from an average of 450 mg/100g sodium in regular breads in Canada. They studied how […]