Salt - the world's leading killer

Salt, or sodium chloride, is essential to the maintenance of human health, but we need to receive daily no more than 350 milligrams. This is approximately half the weight of a raisin. Most Europeans and Americans consume 3,500 milligrams of salt per day.
 

Moreover, most of the salt we have not the castors and of recycled products in amounts that many consumers can not even be imagined. A bag of potato chips - it's one of the biggest culprits in a single serving contains 250 milligrams of salt. However, the same portion is contained in one piece of store bread or a bowl of cereal for breakfast. The largest amount of salt contained in canned vegetables, soups - semi-finished products and frozen dinners, as follows: in each of them can hold more than 1,000 milligrams of salt, according to telegraph.co.uk.

 

The largest amount of salt contained in the food that is prepared outside the home, particularly in the fast-food it may be more than 2,000 milligrams per meal. Reduction in daily salt intake to 2,000 milligrams at the population level can prevent 1,250,000,000 deaths from stroke and almost three million deaths from cardiovascular disease each year.

 

In addition, the salt - is a powerful instigator of thirst, which increases the sales of soft drinks. Should be a gradual reduction in salt intake, because people are very accustomed to it, and become less sensitive due to "chronic" exposure. That is why, slow deliverance of mankind from the salt can go virtually painless and unnoticed.

 

Even small reductions in salt intake can bring significant benefits. That's because a lot of people are at high risk of developing high blood pressure, so, of course, reducing salt intake can significantly reduce this risk. Many people are already suffering from very high blood pressure, and in order to survive they have to rely on expensive drugs.