Salt causes high blood pressure and this is one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which causes about 40% of deaths in China. It has long been known that salt consumption in China is high but no one had put an accurate figure on it. Monique Tan has done an analysis. Adults in China consume 10.9g of salt per day, which is more than twice the maximum 5g recommendation set by the World Health Organisation – and one of the highest salt intakes in the world. Perhaps more worrying is that children aged six to 16 are exceeding the maximum salt intake for adults at (8.7g per day). Chinese public health officials have their work cut
out for them.
The IMF throws out a lifeline to countries that have hit a rough financial patch. As part of its assistance the IMF insists that they take bitter medicine to deal with the root causes of their financial woes. But Tim Forster, Bernhard Reinsberg and Thomas Stubbs say the IMF’s medicine leaves behind a bitter aftertaste of adverse social implications, primarily inequality.
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Monique Tan, Queen Mary University of London
Salt consumption in China is among the highest in the world.
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The IMF headquarters in Washington DC.
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Timon Forster, Freie Universität Berlin; Bernhard Reinsberg, University of Glasgow; Thomas Stubbs, Royal Holloway
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Bhaskar Chakravorti, Tufts University
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Benjamin A.T. Graham, University of Southern California
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Lindy Heinecken, Stellenbosch University
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Natasha Lindstaedt, University of Essex
President Donald Trump has appealed to his base by attacking four Democratic Congresswomen of colour.
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Dennis Rodgers, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
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Hélène Blanchoud, Sorbonne Université
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Javier Rodriguez Pequeño, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Juan Antonio Maestro de la Cuerda, Universidad Nebrija
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