Finland Success at Reducing Salt

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Since Finland’s campaign in the early 1970s to reduce salt intake, daily consumption has dropped by 3,000 mg a day in men and women, with a corresponding decline in death rates from stroke and coronary heart disease of 75 to 80 percent. New England Journal of Medicine