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SODIUM REDUCTION RESOURCE LIBRARY

Find case studies, fact sheets, advocacy tools and more on sodium reduction interventions

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Use of lower-sodium salt substitutes: WHO guideline

WHO recommends that adults replace regular salt with low-sodium salt

Webinar: using data on packaged food to drive policy change and save lives

Resolve to Save Lives

Global nutrition experts discuss how data on packaged food contents can support policy change and create healthier food environments.

WHO recommends lower-sodium, potassium-enriched salt in place of table salt

Resolve to Save Lives

WHO’s recommendation to use low-sodium salt, why it matters, and what it means for countries

User Guide for RTSL’s Global Nutrition Database

Resolve to Save Lives

User guide that decisionmakers, researchers, and advocates can reference while using RTSL’s Global Nutrition Database for Packaged Foods.

Designing Front-of-Package Labels to Inform Consumers and Encourage Healthier Food Choices in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Study

Lindsay S. Taillie, et al.

New study co-authored by RTSL suggests that warning labels are more effective for helping consumers avoid nutrients of concern like excess salt, sugar, and fat.

Global overview of government-endorsed nutrition labeling policies of packaged foods: a document review

Ummay Afroza, et al.

New study co-authored by RTSL and our partners in Bangladesh shows which warning labels on packages foods promotes healthy food choices.

Guidelines for Media Planning 

Vital Strategies

RTSL-UW Lives Saved Calculator 

University of Washington, Resolve to Save Lives

FOPWL regulations around the globe

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Countering Industry Interference: Food Industry Watch Resources

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Reducing Demand for Unhealthy Food: Resources

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Advocacy Action Guide Four Phases to Health Policy Success

Global health Advocacy Incubator

NOURISHING Database

World Cancer Research Fund

RTSL Global Nutrition Database  for Packaged Foods

Resolve to Save Lives

Getting Fiscal Policies Right: Lessons and recommendations across NCD risk factors

NCD Alliance

Lower Sodium, Longer Lives in India

Resolve to Save LIves

Addressing Unhealthy Diets in India

Resolve to Save Lives: India Country Profile

Resolve to Save Lives

Fiscal policies to promote healthy diets: WHO guideline

World Health Organization

Key Resource

Virtual Course: Regulatory Policies to Prevent Obesity and Diet-related Noncommunicable Diseases

Pan American Health Organization

Tackling NCDs: best buys and other recommended interventions for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, 2nd ed

World Health Organization

Key Resource

Research to support the development of front-of-package labeling regulations for food products in the Americas: Methods, tools, and procedures

Pan America Health Organization

Estimated population-wide benefits and risks in China of lowering sodium through potassium-enriched salt substitution: Modelling study

Matti Marklund et al.

Food marketing exposure and power and their associations with food-related attitudes, beliefs and behaviours: a narrative review

World Health Organization

Key Resource

Reducing Premature Mortality from Cardiovascular and Other Non-Communicable Diseases by One Third: Achieving Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 3.4.1

RTSL and Vital Strategies

RTSL and Vital Strategies paper highlights what’s needed to achieve United Nations Sustainability Development Goal for reducing premature deaths from NCDs.