{"id":4217,"date":"2023-03-12T11:51:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4217"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:04:23","slug":"who-global-report-on-sodium-intake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-global-report-on-sodium-intake\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Global Report on Sodium Intake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Key Highlights of the report:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Of the 194 WHO member states, 55 per cent have implemented sodium reduction policies and other measures through mandatory and voluntary approaches.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>global average salt intake<\/strong> is estimated to be <strong>10.8 grams per day<\/strong>, more than double the WHO recommendation of fewer <strong>than 5 grams of salt per day (one teaspoon).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bread and bread products<\/strong> are the most targeted food category for sodium reduction across the implemented reformulation policies in member states.<\/li>\n<li>This was followed by <strong>meat, poultry, game or fish, ready-made<\/strong> and convenience foods and composite dishes and savoury snacks.<\/li>\n<li>Key salt reduction measures will generate an extra year of healthy life for a cost that falls below the average annual income or gross domestic product per person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is Sodium?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sodium (Na) is a chemical element of <strong>the alkali metal group<\/strong> (Group 1 ) of the periodic table.<\/li>\n<li>It is a very soft <strong>silvery-white metal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the most common alkali metal and the sixth most abundant element on Earth, comprising 2.8 per cent of Earth\u2019s crust.<\/li>\n<li>It shows an <strong>exploding reaction with water<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It occurs abundantly in nature in compounds, especially common salt\u2014sodium chloride (NaCl)\u2014which forms the mineral halite and constitutes about 80 per cent of the dissolved constituents of seawater.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is alkali metal?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Alkali metals are any of the elements found in Group IA of the periodic table (the first column). These metals are very reactive chemical species that readily lose their one valence electron to form ionic compounds with nonmetals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/health\/salt-to-taste-reduce-your-sodium-intake-it-may-save-your-life-says-new-who-report-88157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Salt to taste? Reduce your sodium intake. It may save your life, says new WHO report<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global average salt intake is estimated to be 10.8 grams per day, more than double the WHO recommendation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}