date:Sep 20, 2023
plateaued starting in 2011 and began to increase again starting in 2014. Brown states that the slowdown is estimated to cost the UK government approximately UK 54 billion (US$66.9 billion) by 2029.
Reducing salt intake would reduce the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease at a population level, she reveals. Reducing average daily intake of salt by just 1g per day would prevent more than 4,000 premature deaths each year and save 1.5 billion (US$1.85 billion) in healthcare costs.
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