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Too Much Salt!
Most people eat much more salt than they realize. Dining out, fast meal outlets and processed foods have replaced home cooked meals as the major component in our daily diets. The recommended maximum daily intake of sodium chloride (table salt) for a healthy adult is 2,300 milligrams of sodium a day. That’s about a teaspoonful, and while most people would deny putting that much on their food, most salt enters our diet in cooking. Many processed and pre-packaged foods are alarmingly high in sodium. Does it make a difference? Reducing your sodium intake can lead to a 25% reduction in heart disease and stroke risk. Or put another way, keep eating as much salt as you are now and you are 25% more likely to have a stroke or a heart attack ~ assuming of course that you are eating as much salt as the average person. I’m not talking about going on a salt restriction programme; this is really about salt awareness and reducing your intake of excessive sodium. Eating a normal diet, but looking out for “hidden” salt and avoiding it.
The effect of reducing unnecessary salt in this way has been confirmed in controlled trials. Even 15 years after the end of such trials, participants were found to have lower cardiovascular risk and a slightly lower risk of death from all causes than people who did not reduce their salt intake. In Britain Australia and the USA we consume about 3 times more sodium than is necessary or safe, mostly from processed foods and the foods we eat in restaurants. That is not so easy for the individual to control, so the efforts of medical and other health advocates have recently shifted to the commercial world, aiming for a minimum 50% reduction in sodium in processed foods, fast foods, and other restaurant meals, within a decade. That is not likely to happen through voluntary compliance, but will require some form of regulation, almost certainly by governments. |
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This intel was contributed by David Rich
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May, 2012
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