Salty diet doubles risk of stomach cancer; cutting
salt intake could reduce UK deaths by up to 52,000 a
year

A DIET high in very salty foods doubles the risk of
stomach cancer, according to a new Japanese study of
40,000 men and women in a country where salty food is
popular and stomach cancer is the commonest form of
the disease.

The National Cancer Research Institute in Kashiwa
studied 18,684 men and 20,381 women. For men with the
lowest salt intake the risk was one in 1,000 per year,
but for those with a higher intake the risk doubled to
one in 500. Women with a low salt diet had a risk of
one in 2,000, rising to one in 1,300 in high-salt
users, according to the results published in the
latest British Journal of Cancer.

The study follows another recent, British study,
published in the journal Hypertension in December,
that concluded that if salt intake was cut from the
average of 12g a day to 3g, it would prevent 20,500
deaths from stroke each year and 31,400 deaths from
heart disease. Lead researcher Professor Graham
McGregor, of St George’s Hospital, London, said that
even a 10 percent reduction in salt intake would save
6,000 lives a year and prevent a further 6,000
non-lethal strokes and heart attacks.

The Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH), which
he chairs, has called for the food industry to reduce
the amount of salt in processed products.



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