Lower salt is as bad as taste and health. Equally serious is to consume more salt. A report recently revealed will give you a surprise.
High salt intake effects: Salt is a taste of food! If there is less salt in a vegetable or lentils, the entire taste can deteriorate. But you are not eating too much salt in the taste of taste. Yes, low salt is as bad as taste and health. Equally serious is to consume more salt. A report recently revealed will give you a surprise.
According to a recent study, people of India are moving towards a silent epidemic in a taste. And this epidemic is attached to salt. Yes, people of India are inadvertently consuming salt inadvertently. In such a situation, they are suffering from many serious diseases. All problems like heart attack, stroke coming at an early age are also to salt. Through packaged food, junk food, chips, namkeen etc., people’s sodium is increasing. It is a matter of concern that they do not know about it.
Experts at the National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE) say that people in the country are eating more salt than the standard fixed. In such a situation, it is a state of silent epidemic, about which they do not know themselves. This wrong habit is making millions of people of India a victim of serious diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke. Experts warned people that if this habit has not improved in time, then this habit can affect health.
According to the World Health Organization, ideally a person needs less than 5 grams of salt per day. But the study revealed that the salt intake of the people of India is much more than this. People from urban areas are consuming about 9.2 grams of salt through food every day. This quantity is almost double the standards of WHO. On the other hand, the average intake of salt of people from rural areas of the country was found to be around 5.6 grams per day. This is also high, but the situation in urban areas is more serious. The biggest reason for this is the impaired food.
Experts have advised people to consume a small amount of right salt to get rid of this problem. According to experts, eating low sodium salt can be a good option. Such salt is called low sodium salt. In this, some amount of sodium chloride is replaced with magnesium or potassium. The elements of these two are beneficial for the body.
Dr. Sharon Murali of NIE says that the use of low sodium salt can have many big benefits. It is good for both blood pressure and heart health. This salt can reduce blood pressure by about 7/4 mmhg.
Many snacks, food and chaat of India are found in large quantities. Pickle, papad, chips, salty, instant noodles, instant soup, salt biscuits, etc. are very high in sodium. You can choose a better option in their place. Roasted makhana, gram, roasted tide etc. are low sodium food, they are also very healthy.