time when your hand lasts to salt food, think whether it is useful for your health? Not without reason the popular wisdom advises not to rub salt in the wound. Still salt call white death. The increased salt consumption negatively influences blood pressure, exhausts calcium reserves in an organism, aggravates asthma and osteoporosis. Peresolivaniye of food can even cause stomach cancer.
A little bit stories
The history of consumption of salt contains tens of thousands of years. Homer called salt divine. At that time salt was worth its weight in gold. Fields of salt were the cause of military collisions. On tables the kings had gold saltcellars, and the duty to salt food was carried out by the special person – solonichiya (even the profession such was). Sometimes paid soldiers for their merits in salt. Salt sources belonged only to the notable and crowned families.
How many it is necessary for salt in day?
For adults the standard daily rate of salt should not exceed 6 grams. It is one teaspoon. On average the person uses 9-10 grams of salt a day. In some ready-made products salt contains in enormous quantities – in 5 times more of standard daily rate.
The rich countries are familiar with this problem, they even develop social programs of decrease in the use of salt. If people adhered to norms on the salt use, the quantity of strokes would decrease by more than 10%.
Harm of salt
Scientists research properties of salt not one century. By results of one such research, people who consumed excessively a lot of salt got sick with a cataract more often. Salt has negative effect on sight of the person. Salt is raised, as we know, by the blood pressure (hypertension) including in an eye. It also causes deterioration in sight and formation of a cataract.
Especially the food industry is fond of salt. As we already spoke, some ready-made products of food may contain big norm of salt by 5 times.
Salt holds water in an organism. As a result legs and eyelids swell up. The cardiovascular system is not able to cope with excessive liquid. As result, hypertension and strokes.
Kidneys work with increased load. The stomach is in the constant angry state. The risk of formation of cancer increases.
Salt washes away calcium from an organism. Hair become dim, nails fragile, and bones weak. Fragile are also vessels, they lose habitual properties – to be narrowed and extend.
Excess salt is laid in a backbone. In several years such stocks will turn into osteoporosis (curvature of a backbone and formation of a hump).
The increased use of salt can cause a diarrhea, vomiting and gastric spasms. A large amount of salt in an organism can lead to formation of tumors, heavy breath, elevated pressure, heart failure (heart attack, stenocardia). There are cases to a lethal outcome.
Overdose I will merge it is considered one of the main reasons of formation of a hypertension (elevated pressure) at 30% of women and 32% of men.
How to reduce consumption?
Salt hides not only in homemade food, but also in ready-made products, canned food and semi-finished products (bread, ketchup, mayonnaise, cheese). Buying provisions in supermarket, pay attention to availability of salt in structure.
To impact relish to vegetables, you can use lemon juice, garlic, green onions, vinegar, horse-radish, spices and herbs. Try not to salt food at meal time. At first will be to pick up salt (so-called withdrawal pains on salt will begin), but later you will get used to the true taste of food. Your range of tastes considerably will extend.
Especially there is a lot of salt in soy sauce. One tablespoon contains 0.9 grams of salt. Try to buy soy sauce with the low content of salt or dilute it with water.
Practically all canned food (both meat, and vegetable) contains a salt surplus.
To neutralize negative impact of salt on an organism – eat more products rich with potassium and magnesium: dried apricots, raisin, prunes, bananas, rice, haricot, bran, sea cabbage, sunflower seeds of pumpkin and flax, cashew and mustard.
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