Take care an use salt wisely

Take care an use salt wisely



Aside from carrying extra food in your belly (gastrointestinal contents) the usual explanation for such a sudden increase in weight and waist size following a proper diet is bloating from increased salt intake. 

The main use of table salt is to add a flavour into our food but most people have developed a habit that even before they actually taste the food they are adding salt into the food just by looking at it they have already tasted that the food needs a bit of a salt flavour. We receive about 80% of our salt intake from sodium chloride which is added to most of the processed food we eat on our everyday lives Research also showed that cataract formation, a clouding of the lenses associated with salt. And it seems we are eating more processed food today than ever. Our bodies only require about 500 mg of sodium a day (1tsp), and this should be obtained from within natural foods, not added to food in the form of sodium chloride. However, we typically get as much as 6,000-8,000 mg of sodium a day! Salt is practically everywhere and causing health problems. The reason salt causes bloating is that your body retains water to dilute it in order to protect your tissues from salt's Ron Brown, author of The Body Fat Guide 

Although scientists have long suspected a link between salt intake and cardiovascular disease, a recent study by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (Cook et al, 2007) confirms that people who reduced their salt intake by 25-30% had an equal reduction in risk of cardiovascular disease of 25%.Dr. Norm Campbell of Blood Pressure Canada, who is leading the development of a National Sodium Policy in Canada, states, "If we discovered that a food additive was causing 30 percent of all cancers, something would be done right away. The same action is needed with sodium to prevent stroke, heart disease and other vascular illnesses." The Journal of the American Medical Association reported back in 1947

Reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, and improve your health!

Effects of salt

·         Fluid retention

·         High blood pressure

·         Changes in urination

·         Thirst

·         Harmful irritating effect

·         Gaining of weight

·         Resulting in errors of refraction

·         Reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, and improve your health!

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