Tuesday, January 10, 2012
In a letter to Prime Minster Stephen Harper, the Canadian Stroke Network, along with a number of other health groups, urged the government to take action on high sodium intake throughout Canada.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Harper must demand action on sodium levels, health groups urge
Some of the country’s most prominent health organizations have banded together to demand action from Prime Minister Stephen Harper on a national plan to reduce excessive sodium consumption in Canada.
The groups, which include the Canadian Medical Association, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Hypertension Canada and the Canadian Stroke Network, say failure to take action on this urgent issue sends the message that the interests of the food industry are more important than the health of Canadians.
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Provinces seek Ottawa’s help to lower Canadians’ sodium intake
Canada’s health ministers are calling on the federal government to work with them to develop national programs to help lower the excessive amount of sodium Canadians consume each day.
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Friday, November, 18, 2011
Sodium reduction must be a priority for Canada
The longer Canada delays measures to reduce dietary sodium, the greater the risk to Canadians, says the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. The Foundation calls on the federal government to begin implementing recommendations laid out by the Sodium Working Group in July 2010.
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Too much sodium, not enough potassium in the Canadian diet: research
Most Canadians aren’t getting enough potassium in their diets, according to research that looked not only at the element symbolized by the letter K, but reaffirmed that we’re laying it on too thick with the sodium, or Na [...]
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
Canadians still consume too much sodium, study says
Canadians continue to consume too much sodium and males between the ages of 9 and 30 are the worst culprits, according to new research [...]
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Cut the salt: Processed foods with high sodium content get makeover in cookbook
As Canadians become more aware of the dangers of consuming high-salt foods, there is a new cookbook out that delves deeper into the subject [...]
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Sodium 101 launches iPhone App
Looking to cut back on sodium? Now there’s an App for that! The Canadian Stroke Network is excited to announce the launch of Sodium 101 for iPhone. Designed to help users stay within their daily [...]
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2010
Government won’t act on all sodium recommendations, despite costly panel
Health Canada won’t commit to implementing all the recommendations of its expert sodium panel after spending nearly $1 million to get the group’s advice on ways to reduce the salt intake of Canadians [...]
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Loading up on fat and sodium: There’s an app(etizer) for that
If you usually enjoy an appetizer before your main course, you might want to rethink your order.Consider that most starters at full-service restaurant chains deliver at least 500 calories [...]
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Health ministers to curb salty Canadian diet
Health officials from across Canada say Canadians are eating too much salt. Federal, provincial and territorial health ministers, who are meeting in Newfoundland this week, will agree that the recommended daily intake of sodium should [...]
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Toronto board of health supports sodium reduction strategy
Toronto’s board of health is urging the federal government to quickly put its sodium reduction strategy into action to help prevent Canadians from dying of heart disease and stroke. A report, presented and passed at Friday’s board meeting, presses [...]
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
McCain Foods moves to cut sodium levels
McCain Foods is working on new recipes for its packaged food products to meet guidelines laid out in Health Canada’s Sodium Reduction Strategy. McCain is working on sodium reduction in some of its established products. (CBC)In a strategy released [...]
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
The Salt Hiding in Your Diet
Nearly 90% of adults consume more salt than U.S. dietary guidelines recommend. Now, federal officials are considering making those guidelines even tougher to follow. Eating too much sodium, a key component of salt [...]
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
Taste buds may feel the pinch, but shaking salt habit a must for health
It’s pretty well in everything we eat — literally from soup to nuts — but health experts say Canadians need to shake up their diets and cut back on the salt. The average person consumes way too much sodium, says Kevin Willis of the Canadian Stroke Network [...]
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Sodium reduction targets to be released soon
Canadians eat too much salt and it may be killing us, experts say. Health Canada is preparing to release new guidelines that will suggest a reduction in how much sodium Canadians should consume [...]
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Health Canada aims to cut Canadians’ salt intake
In an attempt to lower the massive and often lethal amounts of salt Canadians consume, Health Canada plans to call on the food industry to substantially reduce the amount of sodium lurking in processed foods [...]
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Saturday, May 29th, 2010
The Hard Sell on Salt
With salt under attack for its ill effects on the nation’s health, the food giant Cargill kicked off a campaign last November to spread its own message.“Salt is a pretty amazing compound,” Alton Brown [...]
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
McDonald’s takes a small bite out of Happy Meal sodium content
The sodium-rich Happy Meal is getting a slight makeover. McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada Ltd. is changing its menu to include a lower-sodium grilled chicken snack wrap option in its child-oriented Happy Meals [...]
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Wednesday, February 2, 2010
Leslie Beck’s Food for Thought: How to eat less salt
Globe and Mail Nutritionist, Leslie Beck, offers advice on how to eat less sodium [...]
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
2010 Canadian “Salt Lick Award” goes to Gerber Graduates
McCain Foods is working on new recipes for its packaged food products to meet guidelines laid out in Health Canada’s Sodium Reduction Strategy. McCain is working on sodium reduction in some of its established products. (CBC)In a strategy released [...]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Half a teaspoon less salt a day could save 100,000 lives, study finds
Nearly 100,000 lives could be saved in the United States every year if people reduced their salt consumption by just half a teaspoon a day, comparable to the benefits [...]
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Getting Savvy About Sodium in Foods
Trying to navigate your way through the minefield of high-sodium foods out there? Have you been looking for ways to reduce your sodium intake and improve your all-around health [...]
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Choosing healthy options for kids
Moderation is key for parents who like to visit restaurants with their youngsters, but worry about children’s menus that offer little beyond hamburgers, hot dogs [...]
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
High salt intake directly linked to stroke and cardiovascular disease
Salt intake, stroke, and cardiovascular disease: meta-analysis of prospective studies Editorial: The case for population-wide salt reduction gets stronger [...]
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Canadians want salt, food makers tell MPs
Canadians are to blame for the excessive sodium in everything from frozen dinners to breakfast cereal, according to major food manufacturers under increasing political pressure to cut salt in their products [...]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Canadians finding it tough to shake the salt habit
Canadians know that too much salt isn’t good for their diets, but half still continue to shake it on, according to a new study by University of Alberta researchers [...]
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Is your pasta sauce ‘Full of it’? It’s hard to tell.
New research carried out by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) shows that many pasta sauces on sale in the UK, particularly some branded products and those fronted by celebrity chefs, contain much higher amounts of salt than others [...]
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Pizza Pizza shakes the salt – sort of
One of Canada’s largest pizza chains announced this week it has moved to lower sodium levels in some menu items by creating a new crust made with less salt [...]
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Too Much Salt
CBC Radio’s Evan Dyer goes grocery shopping with Sodium101′s Dr. Kevin Willis looking for hidden sodium in food and discovers some disturbingly high-sodium foods that most people eat on a daily basis [...]
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
New research reveals huge differences in salt contents in global brands
New research shows that people in some countries are being fed over twice as much salt in popular global brands as their counterparts elsewhere in the world [...]
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Model forecasts ‘substantial’ health benefits from small cut in salt intake
For every gram of salt that Americans cut from their diets every day, there would be 200,000 fewer deaths over a decade, researchers said Wednesday [...]
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Heart Attack Entrées and Side Orders of Stroke
Unsafe levels of sodium chloride, or salt, in chain restaurant meals increase one’s chance of developing hypertension, heart attacks, strokes, and kidney disease according to the Center for Science [...]
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Monday, February 2, 2009
2009 Canadian “Salt Lick Award” goes to the country’s pizza producers
Three of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence – the Canadian Stroke Network, the Canadian Obesity Network and the Advanced Foods and Materials Network – today awarded the second annual national “Salt Lick Award” [...]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Dietary sodium contributes to 17,000 cases a year of stroke and heart disease in Canada, study says
Previous research from this group shows similar reductions in sodium could eliminate 30 per cent of hypertension among Canadian adults and save the health-care system $430- $540 million a year [...]
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Canada’s “Salt Lick Award” goes to A&W “Chubby Junior” Meal
Three of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence – the Canadian Stroke Network, the Canadian Obesity Network and the Advanced Foods and Materials Network – today awarded the second annual national “Salt Lick Award” to the country’s pizza producers [...]
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
What Can Parents Do?
High sodium diets in children lead to elevated blood pressure, which increases the risk of heart disease and stroke in later life, according to a study based on data collected in the U.K. National Diet and Nutrition Survey [...]
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
The Shakedown on Salt
Canadian food products are among the saltiest in the world and the average Canadian consumes more than double the healthy level of sodium a day [...]
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
Stroke researchers applaud recommendations in ‘Food Guide’ to reduce salt intake
For the first time, Canada’s ‘Food Guide’ sends a strong message about the health risks associated with over-consumption of salty foods and the impact on public health [...]
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007
Salt consumption, poor diet leading to ‘storm’ of health issues
Calgary physician and disease prevention guru Dr. Norm Campbell laughs when he’s called a ‘shaker’ in the fight again salt [...]
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