Progress toward sodium reduction in the United States Progresos hacia la reducción del sodio en los Estados Unidos

• Main Authors: Jessica Levings, Mary Cogswell, Christine J. Curtis, Janelle Gunn, Andrea Neiman, Sonia Y. Angell
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2012
• Subjects: Sodio; salud mundial; Estados Unidos; Sodium; world health; United States; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Límite
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/c298e21e245544078bf14d902cfe7a72

The average adult in the United States of America consumes well above the recommended daily limit of sodium. Average sodium intake is about 3 463 mg/day, as compared to the 2010 dietary guidelines for Americans recommendation of < 2 300 mg/day. A further reduction to 1 500 mg/day is advised for p...