Salt Awareness Week 2012 - Reducing salt; preventing stroke

This year's Salt Awareness Week was held at the end of March and focused on 'reducing salt;preventing stroke'. This is a really important topic because eating too much salt raises our blood pressure and this can triple our risk of having a stroke; the third biggest killer in the UK and the leading cause of severe adult disability.

More than 600 awareness events took place around the country in hospitals, community centres, libraries, pharmacies, schools, universities and businesses - look out for our poster!

As part of the week we teamed up with 17 London Boroughs to look at the nutritional content of takeaway vs. supermarket pizzas, with shocking results. One takeaway pizza could contain more than 10grams of salt and contain up to 2.5 times more salt than the average supermarket pizza - click here for more information

Reducing your risk of stroke through salt reduction can be as easy as 1, 2, 3! Click on the below images to find out more

1. Less salt: Choose lower salt foods and ingredients, don't add salt at the table or during cooking and read the labels. If it's got a red label think twice before making it a regular part of your diet. If it's green you're good to go!

2. Lower blood pressure: Cutting back on salt will lower your blood pressure and work to prevent the rise in blood pressure that usually occurs with age

3. Less risk of stroke: Reducing your blood pressure can lower your risk of having a stroke