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Topic: Childhood Obesity News - Study links salt and soft drinks to childhood obesity - FoodNavigator.com

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Obesity is currently thought to affect more than 64 per cent of the US’s adult population and 16 per cent of children, and has been repeatedly linked with an increased risk of other health conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. The research could increase pressure on the food industry to reduce salt content in a wide range of foods, and adds to previous studies linking dietary salt intake to an increase fluid consumption in adults ( Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases , Vol. The researchers, from St George’s, University of London, analysed data from the Great British National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) - anationally representative sample of more than 2,000 people between four and 18. He and co-workers predicted that reducing salt intake by one gram each day would reduce sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption by 27 grams per day, after considering other factors such as age, gender, body weight and level of physical activity. Co-author of the study, Professor Graham MacGregor is also chairman of Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) and professor at St George’s Hospital. In an accompanying editorial, Myron Weinberger from Indiana University Medical Center, said that reductions in salt and sweet-beverage consumption among children, coupled with an increase in physical activity, “could go a long way in reducing the present scourge of cardiovascular disease in our industrialized society. Read Childhood Obesity

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