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WHO recommends a healthier alternative to regular salt

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Evidence clearly shows the sodium in salt can harm our health when we eat too much of it. Source: AAP / PA / Alamy / Anthony Devlin

Advice to eat less salt has been part of international and Australian guidelines for decades. Now the world's leading health body is recommending people switch to a lower-sodium salt substitute called potassium-enriched salt. Listen to SBS Sinhala podcast for more information.


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By Dinesh Liyanage, Bruce Neal, Xiaoyue (Luna) Xu

Presented by Dinesh Liyanage

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Advice to eat less salt has been part of international and Australian guidelines for decades. Now the world's leading health body is recommending people switch to a lower-sodium salt substitute called potassium-enriched salt. Listen to SBS Sinhala podcast for more information.



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