Restore salt "moderation" to Dietary Guidelines: Salt Institute
Pointing to recently published evidence that salt intakes are unchanged over decades and in a range above that recommended in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and may, therefore, reflect physiological signals of need and not consumer behavior, the Salt Institute has renewed its call to abandon numeric targets for Americans' salt consumption.
In formal comments today to the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (pdf 36.38 kB) , Richard L. Hanneman, president of the Salt Institute pointed out that the body's consistent physiological salt appetite has the perverse result of increasing caloric intake instead of curtailing dietary sodium.
The Institute called for further study and for replacing the numeric target in the 2005 Guidelines with a call for "moderation" as contained in Guidelines beginning in 1980 until 2000.
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