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The Life List: Seven ways to cut salt from your diet

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Sauces, pre-mix seasoning and stock cubes help make food tastier but often contain a lot of salt.

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SINGAPORE – There is no sugar-coating the facts:

Nine in 10 people in Singapore

are consuming more than the daily recommended intake of salt, and the rate of high blood pressure has nearly doubled since 2010.

These are the stark takeaways from the Ministry of Health’s National Population Health Survey 2022 and Health Promotion Board’s National Nutrition Survey 2022.

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