If there is no salt in the food, the taste of the food becomes negligible. Today you cannot even imagine your life without salt. You can guess 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. Now let us 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, America, while talking to BBC, says, 'Salt is necessary for life.' This is because salt is very important for the active cells of humans. Apart from this, if we do not consume enough sodium, we can also die. In fact, sodium deficiency can cause a disease called hyponatremia, which can lead to 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 every day. 5 grams of salt contains about 2 grams of sodium, which is equal to one teaspoon. However, people do not eat only 5 grams of salt but use double of it. According to the WHO report itself, globally people consume 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. On the other hand, if we talk about deaths due to salt every year, the World health Organization estimates that about 18.9 lakh people die every year due to salt worldwide. salt does not play a direct role in these deaths. Rather, salt plays a role in the occurrence and growth of diseases that cause people to die. This is why health experts always advise that salt should be used as little as possible. This kind of advice is also given to people for sugar.
click and follow Indiaherald WhatsApp channel