The UK Food Standards Agency has set new targets for salt reduction which, predictably, the food industry warns will be hard to achieve.

New York City health department is in talks with the food industry and restaurants to cut the amount of salt in the food they sell.

In this Sunday Telegraph article, the Professor of Health Policy at Imperial College makes six simple suggestions that in his personal view would improve Britain's very expensive but extremely flawed National Health Service, the NHS.

A new government report draws attention to very high salt consumption in the US and strongly recommends restricting intake to no more than 1,500mg of sodium a day. That's a little under 4g of salt, about two-thirds of a teaspoonful.

If you think you can lower the risk of heart disease by cutting down on salt, you're wrong, as a new study has found no conclusive proof of any link between having salt and the incidence of heart disease.

Researchers in the United States say they have more evidence of the health risks of eating too much salt. The scientists at the Harvard Medical School say their findings suggest that consuming less salt can reduce the chances of heart disease and stroke by 25 per cent.