Salt - the world's leading killer

Salt, or sodium chloride, is essential to the maintenance of human health, All we need to receive daily  is no more than 350 milligrams.  

This is approximately half the weight of a raisin. or  the simplest meal such as one piece of store bread or a bowl of cereal for breakfast . It is proven that consumption more than that are not beneficial to our health and can lead to various chronic danger to our health 
  

Most Europeans and Americans consume 3,500 milligrams of salt per day mostly use in preparing meat or in the fast food chain business alone.

Moreover, almost every products contain high amount of salt and we consume it in amounts that many consumers can not even be imagined. Potato chips - it's one of the biggest culprits in the world as in a single serving contains 250 milligrams of salt. 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 food is from food that is prepared outside the home, particularly in the fast-food restaurant. it may be more than 2,000 milligrams per meal or 6 time of the daily requirement that we need in a day. 

 

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 a big 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 high blood pressure, and in order to survive they have to rely on expensive drugs. In the US alone 1 out of 10 Death that happen there at blamed by salt. Studies show that in  2010 in the US, 2.3  million died because of salt

Let say if we just reduce our daily salt intake to 350 milligrams at the population level it can prevent 12. million  deaths from stroke or cardiovascular disease each year around the worlds

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