Carl Heneghan

And that is equivalent to about one teaspoon of salt.

Okay.

100 millimoles of sodium gets me about 4 millimetres of mercury.

That 100 millimoles is about equivalent to 2,000 milligrams of sodium, which is equal to 5 grams of salt, which is around about a teaspoon.

Isn't that so?

Isn't that much more useful information that could have been imparted in the paper?

I am joining the research, but I want to know when you get your statistics, is you can do all the statistics right.

Now, please, please podcast, email in, write in and tell me I'm wrong.

But what I'm trying to do is say, can I find some usable advice for clinicians and patients based on these results?

And I do think that's the sort of thing as a little infographic could have said, here's what you can do with this paper.

And I think we need more of that to make this more usable research.

And I will say to people about a teaspoon of salt is a useful thing to do.

Well, just remember.

I don't know.

Well, what you find is the recommended salt consumption per day is six grams per day.

yeah so one of the things you find here is that most people are having lots of salt in hidden salt in processed foods are particularly bad many of the ready meals are pretty bad you can even find salt in all sorts of products like even medicines contain salt so the first thing is you've got your processed amount of salt and then people add salt to their diet so generally what you've got to do is try and get yourself down to six grams per day

Now, a lot of people have a significantly more than that.

And I would say you've got to look for that five or six grams and think, where is it in your diet and reduce it.

And that's the equivalent of a teaspoon.

So I think a lot of people would understand this from blood pressure.