Benefits and Risks of Salt
What are the possible benefits nd risks of salt?
Health benefits of salt
Salt is not only critical to your life, but it is one of the basic elements of which your body is made. Like lovers, the relationship between salt and your health is so intricately involved as to make them impossible to be disentangled or untied. Without salt, you could not exist for a moment. At the fundamental level of the physical body, you are a walking, breathing, salty ocean.
Health risks and dangers of salt
The risks and dangers of too much salt
Higher salt diets in children lead to raised blood pressure which increases the risk of heart disease or stroke in later life. A total of 1,658 children had their salt intake and blood pressure recorded during a seven-day watch on their diet. A study has shown that for each extra gram of salt eaten there was a 0.4mmHg (millimetres of mercury) increase in increase blood pressure.