Salt controversy: fact or fake!

Shaking the salt habit!

The three things we can do to lower our sodium intake and two tricks for interpreting nutrition facts labeling on processed foods

Sprinkling doubt: taking sodium skeptics with a pinch of salt!

Is the sodium debate a legitimate scientific disagreement or a “controversy” manufactured by industry?

Sodium Skeptics Try to Shake Up the Salt Debate

What about the studies that show a “u-shaped curve,” where too much sodium is bad, but too little may be bad too?

Salt: are you eating too much?

Watch the Channel 4 Dispatches programme (2015) to find out more about it (ITN Production for C4).

Reporter: Tazeen Ahmad

Producer & Director: Alison Ramsey

Featuring: Prof FP Cappuccio (University of Warwick), Prof GA MacGregor (Queen Mary University of London), Dr V Nathanson (British Medical Association), Dr K Mehtani (University of Oxford).

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