A new study suggests that lives could be saved if individuals consumed 5g less salt per day. The new meta-analysis, conducted by researchers at Warwick and Naples Universities and published in the British Medical Journal, looked at the results of 13 published prospective studies on habitual salt intake and stroke and cardiovascular disease rates. The researchers estimated that eating less salt could avert 1.25 million deaths from stroke and almost 3m deaths from cardiovascular disease. The scientists even claim that these projections are conservative because of difficulties in accurately assessing salt intake.