Cutting salt 'should be global priority'

If salt intake needs to be cut, it ain't gonna happen 'cause the UN says so.

The UN must make reducing salt intake a global health priority, say UK scientists.

Writing in the British Medical Journal they say a 15% cut in consumption could save 8.5 million lives around the world over the next decade.

The report says practical steps to reduce consumption should be drawn up without delay.

If voluntary measures do not work, the food industry should be compelled to cut salt levels, it says.

Clearly it is the fault of industry.

Clearly there is a need to outlaw/regulate salt shakers.

Idiots.