To Live Long, Eat Less Salt: Salt Intake Reduction Promotion and Hypertension Control in China

Along with the rapid economic development and living standard improvement in China during the past decades, Chinese population has longer life expectancy than before [1]. However, great changes in lifestyle and eating habits have also happened among the Chinese population at the same time [2]. For examples, people are more prone to lead a sedentary life and eat westernized food (such as hamburger and chips). As a result, diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension are become more and more common nowadays in China [3], which is so-called epidemiological transition in developing countries [4]. For China, 42% of death is caused by diet-related NCDs compared with all other death causes in 1995, and this proportion will reach 52% by 2020 [3].