{"id":63386,"date":"2025-03-27T10:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63386"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:48:29","slug":"fg-moves-to-cut-salt-intake-fight-hypertension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/27\/fg-moves-to-cut-salt-intake-fight-hypertension\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Moves to Cut Salt Intake, Fight Hypertension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has launched a new policy to reduce excessive salt consumption and combat rising cases of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>At the unveiling of the National Guideline for Sodium Reduction in Abuja, Minister of State for Health, Dr. Iziaq Salako, represented by Dr. Olubunmi Aribeana, highlighted the dangers of high sodium intake.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that rapid urbanization and increased consumption of processed foods have pushed daily salt intake to 7 to 9 grams, far exceeding the World Health Organization\u2019s recommended 5-gram limit.<\/p>\n<p>The policy introduces strict sodium limits for packaged foods, enforces compliance through the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, and promotes public education on the health risks of excess salt consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Salako called on food manufacturers to reformulate products with lower sodium levels and assured government support for healthier alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the government introduced a new National Guideline for Food Handlers&#8217; Medical Test, ensuring regular health checks for food workers as part of the 2023 National Policy on Food Safety.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative is expected to curb hypertension and improve public health nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Federal Government has launched a new policy to reduce excessive salt consumption and combat rising cases of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases in Nigeria. At the unveiling of the National Guideline for Sodium Reduction in Abuja, Minister of State for Health, Dr. Iziaq Salako, represented by Dr. Olubunmi Aribeana, highlighted the dangers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63388,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63386\/revisions\/63388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}