Salty foods like potato chips, soft pretzels, and instant noodles often come to mind when thinking about meals delicious and quick to prepare. But although most of us are aware that these foods contain a lot of salt, there are several others that you may not be aware of that are high in sodium and can also be harmful to health. Therefore, understand better in this article why you should banish the salt of your life.
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Excess salt consumption can be harmful to maintain body health
In general, we can say that salting your food too much can be dangerous. According to a recent study by the UK's Biobank, those who add extra salt to their meals are at a higher risk of dying before their time. Over an eleven-year period, researchers collected data from more than 500,000 individuals.
Study result
In contrast to people who never add salt to their food, the study found that adding more salt to one meal can reduce life expectancy by more than two years for men and a year and a half for women.
However, before taking all the salt out of your life, you have to understand that there were some limitations to the new study's outcome, such as not knowing exactly how much salt was added to the dishes, the possibility of adding more salt to the meal and the fact that participation was volunteer.
According to The Guardian, the human body also needs a certain amount of salt to be healthy, but there is still no indication of what would be the sweet spot between too much and too little salt. In this sense, until now, the evidence found about salt seems to support the idea that healthy individuals who consume recommended levels of salt need not worry too much about their ingestion.