Winehouse remembered a year after death

LONDON — Amy Winehouse's tracks have sold 1.7 million copies in Britain alone since she died from alcohol poisoning, the Official Charts Company said, as fans and her family Monday marked a year since her death at the age of 27.




Fans have bought 1.2 million copies of her albums and 500,000 copies of her singles over the past year, helping to make the singer-songwriter -- famed for her powerful deep voice -- one of Britain's top-selling modern recording artists.



Winehouse, a troubled personality who had struggled with drug addiction, was found dead from alcohol poisoning in her home in north London on July 23, 2011.



Fans left tributes outside her former home in north London on Monday, with cards, pictures and flowers piling up.



"Remembering Amy Winehouse for the insanely talented, funny and heartbreaking person she was," tweeted Australian singer Sam Sparro.



Winehouse's posthumously issued third album Lioness: Hidden Treasures reached number one after its release in December, selling 194,000 copies in its first week, but her second album Back to Black remains her most popular.



Music stations including MTV and BBC Radio 1 played special sets of her tracks on Monday, and the BBC was set to broadcast a previously unseen 2006 interview with the star.



Winehouse's family said they would mark the anniversary of her death together and were still "struggling to come to terms" with her loss.



"To mark the event, the family will be spending the day together, remembering a daughter and sister that meant the world to them," they said in a statement on her website.


"Whilst the world remembers a gifted artist who was taken from us all at a ridiculously young age, we will be thinking of a person who gave so much, and in turn was given so much, by a family still struggling to come to terms with the fact that, where there should be four, there is only three."



The family, which includes Winehouse's father, mother and older brother, thanked fans for their sympathy and support over the past year, adding that they hoped "we have been able to contribute to a positive legacy in Amy's name".



Her father Mitch Winehouse set up the The Amy Winehouse Foundation along with other family members last September, aiming to support young people in need.



He has also published a book, "Amy, My Daughter

SALTY FOODS LIKE BREAD AND CEREAL SHOULD BE CUT AS THEY CAN CAUSE CANCER

Salt is in many foods, such as bread.



Cutting back on salty foods such as bacon, bread and breakfast cereals may reduce people's risk of developing stomach cancer, according to the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).



It wants people to eat less salt and for the content of food to be labelled more clearly.



In the UK, the WCRF said one-in-seven stomach cancers would be prevented if people kept to daily guidelines.



Cancer Research UK said this figure could be even higher.



Too much salt is bad for blood pressure and can lead to heart disease and stroke, but it can also cause cancer.



The recommended daily limit is 6g, about a level teaspoonful, but the World Cancer Research Fund said people were eating 8.6g a day.



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There are around 6,000 cases of stomach cancer every year in the UK. The WCRF estimated that 14% of cases, around 800, could be avoided if everyone stuck to their 6g a day.



Kate Mendoza, head of health information at WCRF, said: "Stomach cancer is difficult to treat successfully because most cases are not caught until the disease is well-established.



Katharine Jenner from Consensus Action on Salt and Health, says eating less than six grammes of salt could prevent stroke and cancer deaths

"This places even greater emphasis on making lifestyle choices to prevent the disease occurring in the first place - such as cutting down on salt intake and eating more fruit and vegetables."



Eating too much salt is not all about sprinkling it over fish and chips or Sunday lunch, the vast majority is already inside food.



It is why the WCRF has called for a "traffic-light" system for food labelling - red for high, amber for medium and green for low.



However, this has proved controversial with many food manufacturers and supermarkets preferring other ways of labelling food.



Lucy Boyd, from Cancer Research UK, said: "This research confirms what a recently published report from Cancer Research UK has shown - too much salt also contributes considerably to the number of people getting stomach cancer in the UK.



"On average people in Britain eat too much salt and intake is highest in men.



"Improved labelling - such as traffic light labelling - could be a useful step to help consumers cut down."



A spokesman for the Department of Health said: "We already know too much salt can lead to conditions such as heart disease and stroke. That is why we are taking action through the 'Responsibility Deal' to help reduce the salt in people's diets. And we are looking at clearer... labelling on foods as part of our consultation on front-of-pack labelling.



"We keep these findings under review alongside other emerging research in the field."

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