Salty Diets Lead to Obesity in Children

Posted on February 27, 2008
Filed Under Chief Blogging Officer

As many Fit Fuelers know by now, childhood obesity is a major issue for Fit Fuel as a company and we’ve made major efforts to combat this serious epidemic through our nation-wide healthy vending program. When new research comes out on childhood obesity, we’re on top of it.

Today, a new study emerged that concluded that salty diets could lead to obesity in children by causing them to drink more sugary or fattening beverages. The researches at St. George Medical Center in London found that if children reduced their sodium (salt) intake by half (about 3 grams per day), this would lead to a decrease of approximately two high-sugar beverages a week.

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Fit Fuel is going to consider reducing the amount of salty snacks in it’s Fuel Zones as a result of this study. It’s important to note that salt reductions of between 10-20% cannot be detected by human salt taste receptors; what this means is that we can reduce the salt content by up to 20% in your favorite salty snack that you’ve been eating from our vending machines for the past year and you shouldn’t notice any difference at all - but a reduction of 20% on something that you eat every day could have a significant impact over time.

This measure is primarily being applied to our school planogram.