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Professor Caryl Nowson, Deakin University, WASH member from Australia said "Why should people in Brazil have to eat cereal packed full of salt if we in Australia can have the same product with a fraction of the salt content (79% less in Kelloggs Frosties)? Why is it OK for Mexicans to have 2.5 times more salt in their McDonalds Chicken Nuggets than Australians? Why do Cheeseburgers, Onion Rings and Coco Pops in Australia contain significantly more salt than the same products in the UK.

The scientific evidence shows that eating too much salt leads to raised blood pressure, which in turn causes heart disease and stroke. High salt diets have also been linked to stomach cancer and osteoporosis. These huge variations in salt contents show that the excuses of the food industry that it is technically too difficult to reduce salt, and that customers will not accept the reductions are rubbish. WASH research shows food companies have reduced salt levels in some countries we want them to reduce the salt in all their products in all their markets."

"The UK is currently leading the way in reducing salt," said Professor Graham MacGregor, Chairman of WASH. "The experience of Finland, which has had a salt reduction programme running since the late 1970s, shows that population-wide reduction of dietary salt leads to population-wide reductions in blood pressure and parallel reductions in deaths from stroke and heart disease. The American Medical Association has recently voted to work to reduce the amount of salt added to food by industry in the US by at
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