Sodium Resources

Source: CDC: Sodium

The general public should consume less than 2,300 mg of sodium per day. At-risk individuals should consume less than 1,500 mg of sodium per day.

At risk individuals include:

• People over the age of 40
• Being African-American
• Having diabetes
• Having high blood pressure

70% of US adults fall within the high-risk population. Even individuals who are not in the high-risk groups, benefit from reducing sodium intake.

Sodium Reduction Education Materials

• Salt-tistics (CDC)
• Sodium Top Ten (American Heart Association)
• Sodium Point-Counterpoint (Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention; CDC)
• Sodium: What You Can Do (CDC)
• Lessons for Living Well--Nutrition Education for Adult ESL
  This free interactive media website helps adults practice English while also learning about healthy eating options, salt, high blood pressure, stroke, and heart attack
• Label Language: Sodium (Eat Smart Move More, NC PAN Branch)

Choosing Produce Wisely Video: Skip to 1:38 for message on sodium.
Video produced by NCDHHS (starring NCHDSP staff, Alicia Clark)

• Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States (Institute of Medicine)
• The Importance of Population-Wide Sodium Reduction (American Heart Association, Circulation 2011)
• Sodium Reduction: State and Local Action Opportunities to Reform the Norm (North Dakota Department of Health)
• Accompanying narrative for Sodium Reduction PowerPoint (North Dakota Department of Health)
• Circulation: Importance of Population-Wide Sodium Reduction (Circulation, 2011, Appel, Frohlich; Hall; Pearson; Sacco; Seals; Sacks; Smith; Vafiadis & Van Horn)
• Improving the Food Environment: A Guide for Government Procurement (CDC, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention)
• Sodium Reduction in Communities: An Overview (CDC)
• Sodium Reduction in Communities: Abstracts (CDC, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention)
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 (US Department of Agriculture & Department of Health and Human Services)
• Other e-resources compiled by CDC
• Cutting Salt, Improving Health Initiative (NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene)
• Packaged Food Categories and Targets (National Salt Reduction Initiative)
• Eat Smart Move More (North Carolina Physical Activity and Nutrition Branch)
• Healthy Carolinians (NC Department of Health and Human Service & NC Division of Public Health)