Government salt reduction strategy is misleading and potentially dangerous.

Research on which the Department of Health bases its guidelines is inadequate and out of date.There is growing confusion associated with the Government salt reduction strategy – a strategy which some experts believe is both misleading and potentially dangerous, largely because the research on which the Department of Health bases its guidelines is inadequate and out of date. People are told that reducing salt consumption is critical to long-term health. However, an increasing number of influential medical studies, including the Institute of Medicine(1) and the Cochrane Collaboration(2),