Salt

The stark message being delivered to parents and carers is that feeding children salty foods condemns them to high blood pressure in later life. According to Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) the upper safe limit for salt consumption is;

6 grams for adults
Children age 7-14 5 grams
Children age 1-6 2 grams
(Babies should have no salt at all)

Recent surveys have shown that adults are consuming between 10 and 12 grams of salt a day, three times more than the body needs, and children, who require even less salt, are consuming the same amount as adults. This is thought to be largely to do with children