If there is no salt in the food then the taste of the food becomes negligible. Today you cannot even imagine your life without salt. You can imagine how important salt is from the fact that there was a nationwide movement in India for it. You know it as Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha. Let us now tell you in this article how important salt is for our body and how many lakhs of people die every year due to it.
effect of salt on the body
BBC World Service has done a program on this, ‘The Food Chain’. It tells how dangerous salt can be for our body. However, there are many experts who say that salt is very important for our body. For example, Paul Breslin, Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Rutgers University of America, while talking to BBC, says, ‘Salt is essential for life.’
This is because salt is very important for active human cells. Apart from this, if we do not consume enough sodium then we can also die. In fact, sodium deficiency can cause a disease called hyponatremia, which can cause serious conditions like confusion, vomiting, seizures, irritability and coma.
Salt consumption and death
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is necessary to consume 5 grams of salt in food daily. 5 grams of salt contains about 2 grams of sodium, which is equal to one teaspoon. However, people do not eat just 5 grams of salt but use double it. According to the WHO report, globally people eat an average of 11 grams of salt every day. Due to this, the risk of heart disease, gastric cancer, osteoporosis, obesity and kidney diseases increases.
Talking about the deaths caused by salt every year, the World Health Organization estimates that every year around 18.9 lakh people die due to salt across the world. Salt does not play a direct role in these deaths. Rather, salt plays a role in the occurrence and progression of diseases that cause death to people. This is why health experts always recommend that salt should be used minimally. This kind of advice is also given to people regarding sugar.
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