SYDNEY Nike Air Max 98 Homme Pas Cher , Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Australian men on average are eating twice the amount of salt considered safe by the World Health Organization, with their female counterparts not far behind, according to latest research.
The men are taking about 10.1 grams of salt a day and the women are taking 7.34 grams, against the recommended maximum salt intake of 5 grams a day, according to the findings of a study led by Professor Bruce Neal, senior director of the Food Policy Division of the Australia-based George Institute for Global Health, and released on Monday.
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"Despite a steady improvement in mortality rates over the past three decades, cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in Australia ... reducing population salt intake is projected to be one of the most cost-effective strategies for reducing rates of premature death and disability attributable to high blood pressure and vascular disease," they said.
Despite a number of programs for reducing salt intake in Australia, "there has been no robust assessment of national intake levels that would permit the success or failure of these programs to be quantified."
Their results highlighted the need for "systematic Nike Air Max 98 Grossiste Pas Cher , standardized and repeated assessments of a national sample of the population in order to determine whether salt reduction programs are achieving the target of a 30 percent reduction in intake by 2025."
Between 2014 and 2015, close to 6 million Australians aged 18 years and over had high blood pressure, according to health surveys by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. In 2015, more than 45,300 deaths in the country were attributed to cardiovascular disease, with one Australian dying as a result of the condition every 12 minutes, bureau figures showed.
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The Cambridge-educated Jutting pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter in a case that gripped the financial hub.
The jury unanimously found him guilty of murder and he was sentenced to life in prison in the former British colony in November last year.
Jutting's lawyer, Michael Vidler, said the grounds for appeal would focus on the "directions given by the deputy judge to the jury".
Jutting is expected to appear in court.
In strongly worded closing remarks at the end of the trial, Deputy High Court Judge Michael Stuart-Moore said the case was one of the most horrifying the Chinese-ruled territory had known.
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Lawyers for Jutting, the grandson of a British policeman in Hong Kong and a Chinese woman, had previously argued that cocaine and alcohol abuse as well as personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism had impaired his ability to control his behavior.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- In her first testimony to the Congress, U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen reiterated central bank's plan to taper its stimulus exit despite recent weakness in the economy.
The current economic situation and outlook, as well as the monetary policy, were the main focus of the hearing held twice a year.
Yellen told lawmakers she expected "a great deal of continuity" in the central bank's monetary policy, saying that she served on the Fed policy-setting committee as the bank formulated its current policy strategy and she strongly supported that strategy.
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