Community intervention projects, efforts at single centers, and multicenter, prospective,
dietary salt-restriction trials suggest that such an intervention is neither easy to achieve nor
simple to maintain. Community-wide interventions based on advertisements, pamphlets,
posters, radio messages, instructions in schools or other institutions, and cooperation from
food suppliers such as butchers and bakers resulted in a slight decrease in salt
consumption, mostly in normotensive women. A demonstration project at a single center …