HEALTH: Top tips to reduce the amount of sugar and salt in your diet Reporter: '); The population are currently consuming more salt than the recommended 6g per day*. Too much salt in the diet has links to some scary things, like heart disease and high blood pressure. For this reason, Aldi has been gradually reducing the level of salt in many of their own label products, whilst ensuring products are of the highest quality and still taste great. Eating too much sugar can increase your risk of tooth decay, weight gain, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and even some cancers. It’s a problem Aldi is passionate about tackling as its customers health and wellbeing is of utmost importance.