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Dietary Sodium Reduction in the United States: Its Importance for

Women

The

December 2010 edition of the Journal of Women’s Health features an article entitled

“Dietary Sodium Reduction in the United States: Its Importance for

Womenâ€. The article addresses the overconsumption of sodium intake by the

female population and the subsequent impact on women’s health. A few highlights

from the article include:

·

In

2006, an estimated 38.8 million women had hypertension (34.8%), and another

21.2 million women were estimated to have prehypertension (19%).

·

Women

consume 2895mg of sodium per day, on average.

·

In

2005–2006, 68.0% of women exceeded the recommended level for salt intake (based

on 2300mg recommendation).

The

full article may be found here: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/jwh.2010.2438.

New Company Commitments to the National Salt Reduction

Initiative

Recently,

six more food companies committed to NYC’s National Salt Reduction Initiative

(NSRI), agreeing to reduce sodium in some of their products. Hostess,

Butterball, Snyder’s of Hanover, Premio, Furmano’s, and Delhaize America joined

16 other food companies who have already committed to the nationwide initiative

to reduce sodium in packaged and restaurant foods by 25% over five years,

thereby reducing population salt intake by 20%. Further, Heinz is expanding its

earlier commitment to include frozen pizza and entrees, in addition to ketchup

and tomato sauce. Company commitments translate into a pledge to reduce the

overall level of sodium in a particular category to meet the corresponding

benchmark (individual products do not all have to meet the target).

Specifically,

commitments from the six companies include:

· Butterball committed to meeting sodium-reduction targets in deli

meat and hot dogs.

· Delhaize America

committed to reduce sodium across 22 packaged-food categories, including frozen

pizza, cereal, and butter.

· Furmano’s committed to reduce sodium across its varieties of

canned beans, baked beans, and tomatoes.

· Hostess committed to reduce sodium across its entire line of bread

products.

· Premio committed to decrease sodium in uncooked sausages.

· Snyder’s of Hanover

committed to reduce sodium in unflavored chips.

For a complete list of company commitments visit

http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/cardio/cardio-salt-nsri-commitments.pdf. Additional support for the NSRI includes 32 local and

state health departments and 25 other partners.

Thank

you for your continued engagement in sodium reduction.

Regards,

Lee, MS, RD, LD

Contractor/Public Health Analyst

Office of the Director

Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention

and Health Promotion

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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(We are sending this information in an effort to

inform our stakeholders of relevant sodium reduction efforts that are

occurring. The purpose of this communication is to provide continued follow up

with stakeholders and create a network of partners working on and interested in

sodium reduction. The Salt e-Update will be sent every two weeks. If you know

someone who you think should be added, or you would like to be removed from

this communication, please let Lee (JMLee1@...) know).

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