Health claims on foods: Promoting healthy food choices or high salt intake?

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1770-1771

  Cappuccio, Francesco P ^a   Pravst, Igor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b Nutrition Institute   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PACKAGING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; SALT INTAKE; SODIUM RESTRICTION;

FOOD LABELING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 80053373302     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114511002856     Document Type: Letter

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