If you have high blood pressure, lowering your salt intake may reduce your blood pressure. Reducing high blood pressure is important to reduce your risk of stroke, heart disease and kidney disease. The salt in your diet does not just come from salt shaker, 80 per cent of the salt in our diets comes from packaged foods.
This fact sheet will provide you with:
- tips to reduce your salt intake
- information for managing high blood pressure
- choices to reduce your sodium
- guidance on reading food labels.
The contents of this fact sheet were last updated December 2024
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