Finland was known as the country with the world's highest risk of cardiovascular disease. If I'm not mistaken, they had a higher salt intake than we did. Britain seems to have higher salt intake than we have. We had a national nutrition survey in 1970; our next one was in 2004. So we had a 24-year gap in our knowledge of what Canadians were eating. People have asked why we are only now looking at it. Well, we surveyed 30,000 Canadians and found that the salt intakes are not at all where they should be.
On November 16th, 2009. See this statement in context.