According to a Tulane University study, putting less salt in your food may be the main change to reduce your risk of heart diseases. This danger decreases even more if you follow the DASH diet, which consists of eating vegetables, fruits, legumes and low-fat dairy products instead of red and processed meats. Find out more about this research below:
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Life changes influence health
Positive results in reducing cardiovascular disease have been shown from combining the DASH diet with a low salt intake. This condition had a positive impact on people's heart health, regardless of their lifestyle and the presence of pre-existing diseases. This can be explained because foods with a high salt content can cause an increase in blood pressure or hypertension, causing strokes and negative cardiac events. Find out more details below:
How does salt influence people's health?
According to the CDC, almost half of adults in the United States, a percentage of 47%, corresponding to 116 million people, have some disease associated with the heart. To find out if this reality matched salt intake, researchers studied 176,570 participants. Each of them filled out a questionnaire about their diet and how often they added salt to their food, not to mention what was already included in their food.
The team also collected medical history and data on hospital admissions to investigate heart disease. The Doctor. Lu Qi, a professor at the New Orleans School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, said people who don't add salt to their food and who prefer a DASH diet, have less risk of heart-related events, regardless of lifestyle and other factors pathologies.
Conclusion of the study
This study was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and in light of the results, it was also possible to perceive that most people whose consumption of salt was low, classified themselves as white females, with adequate body mass, who consumed alcohol moderately, followed the DASH diet and were active physically.
The study's findings were quite promising, but there is a major limitation, as all participants belonged to the UK, excluding other populations with different cultures and behaviors food. However, the findings were encouraging and are poised to expand around the world.
