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People Consume More Salt Than They Think
March 16, 2010: 0 comment(s)
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Most people would be shocked if you told them they were consuming one to two teaspoons of salt each day and even more surprised to learn that almost all that salt came from the food they ate and not the salt they sprinkled on top of it.
Salt, also called sodium, comes hidden in every can of food, pizza, French fry or drink we consume. It is mixed in with other ingredients so we can’t taste it or sense its presence.
There is a clue, however, to know if there is too much salt or sodium in a product. If the amount of sodium on the label is higher than the number of calories per serving, then there is too much sodium or salt in that product. Choosing foods with less sodium on the label than the calories per serving will get your salt intake to less than one teaspoon or 5 grams per day. The ideal amount would be less than one half teaspoon per day or 2500 mg/day.
After reviewing 13 published studies involving 170,000 people, Professor Pasquale Strazzullo, University of Naples, Italy, and Professor Francesco Cappuccio of the University of Warwick, UK, made the bold statement that eating just 5 grams/day less salt (one teaspoon) could save over 1 million deaths from strokes and 3 million deaths from heart disease.
Scientists in a number of studies have established a causal relationship between the amount of dietary salt intake and levels of blood pressure. Eat more salt and your blood pressure goes up. Eat less salt and your blood pressure goes down.
According to the World Health Organization, high blood pressure is attributable for 62% of all strokes and 49% of coronary heart disease events.
The average daily intake of salt is 10 grams or two teaspoons. Because it is added to manufactured foods we are unaware of just how much salt we are eating. Strazzullo and Cappuccio discovered that consuming an additional 5 g/day of salt or one teaspoon increased stroke potential by 23% and heart disease by 17%.
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