The Grenada Food and Nutrition Council will focus on sodium/salt reduction during this year’s National Nutrition Week, from 12–18 June.
Monday, 13 June:
- Seedling distribution. Seedlings (spinach, okra, sweet potato cuttings, beet) provided to 3-4 geriatric homes and clients living with high blood pressure
Tuesday, 14 June:
- Tasting of low-sodium dishes for people visiting clinics (2 clinics will be selected randomly)
Wednesday, 15 June:
- Tasting of low-sodium foods
- Presentation to MNIB staff on sodium reduction and label reading
- Presentation to 2 geriatric homes on nutrition prevention in high blood pressure
Friday, 17 June:
- Low-sodium snack day at schools. School tuck shops are encouraged to provide only low-sodium snacks to children on this day
- Health Fair at the Anglican Pastoral Centre, Gouyave, St John
Sodium reduction tips will be shared on local radio stations daily, throughout the week. National Nutrition Week 2022 will be guided by the slogan “Just a pinch of salt.”
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We have all the organic foods right here, but we want to eat the junk foods that’s keeping us unhealthy. Laziness
The salt myth is on a par with the carbohydrate myth where for 60 odd years they have been promoting carbohydrates as heart healthy, when nothing could be further from the truth other than the other myth that fat makes you fat, that margarine is more heart healthy, and that coconut oil and butter is bad for you and that we should all pour gallons of tortured industrial processed oils like Sunflower, Canola, and Vegetable oils down our throats. The end result has been a rising tide of heart conditions and general ill health.
It’s time to stop listening to the wisdom of the experts and go back to foods that kept us going for millions of years. With our improved living standards, and increased hygiene were we able to consume healthy foods…. Definitely not KFC for example, then we could be a much healthier people.
I would like to see the proponents of low salt diets to cite the studies that were done that proves the need for reduced salt. I think you will find they are few and very far between. The much held myth that salt is bad for you is based on association rather than factual evidence.
While I would happily concede food manufacturers are over dosing people with salt at every turn to enhance the taste of their dubious products. Including drinks like Coca-Cola where apart from excessive sugars in one form or another they add salt to make you thirsty, so you will drink more.
However for home prepared food unless the cook has an excessively heavy hand with the salt during preparation adding salt to taste will do you no harm at all. It is a necessary part of our physiology, and shortages are one of the contributors to muscle cramps.