WHO global report on sodium intake reduction
<p>The world is off track to meet its target of reducing salt intake by almost a third by 2025, costing thousands of lives, according to this new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).</p>
Salt
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Taste of waste
How to make plants yield salt
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Salty ban lifted
the Union government has recently lifted the ban on the use of non-iodised salt. According to medical scientists, this will lead to a "national disaster'. Health ministers of various states,
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A bit of iodine in my salt
A nation stands divided over the government s proposal to lift the ban on non iodised salt
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Common salt protest
SELLING uniodised salt is an illegal act in India. But making and selling common salt will be the feature of a nationwide protest against the recent steep rise in the prices of vegetables and salt,
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Hype about salt
To eat or not to eat is not the question, says a critic of 'low salt' theory
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Damage by salt
The brackish water nourishing Bangladesh's Sundarbans supports a refuge for rare species, but their drinking grounds are getting saline and the world's largest mangrove forest "Sunderbans' is
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SALINE SPREAD
The Gujarat High Court, has directed the joint salt commissioner at Ahmedabad to constitute a committee to probe the spread of salinity in agriculture land, wells and ponds in the Halvad taluka,
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Salt, the saviour
The consumption of salt is currently being blamed for several health problems like high blood pressure and heart ailments that follow. Even though salt is bad for human health, the same may not be the case for many species in the animal world, as h
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Letter to deputy forest protector, East Kutch forest department to the Kutch collector on allocation of land to Adani Chemicals Ltd
Letter to deputy forest protector, East Kutch forest department to the Kutch collector on matter pertaining allocation of land located at Mudra Taluka, Kutch District on rent to Adani Chemicals Ltd,
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Salt on ice
In much of the US east coast north of Washington, a salt shortage is compounding a wretched winter. Rock salt, which is dumped by the tonne on roads to prevent the formation of ice, is now in great