If there is no salt in the food then there is no taste left in the food. Today you cannot even imagine your life without salt. You can guess how important salt is from the fact that there was a nationwide movement for it in India. You know it as Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha. Let us now tell you in this article how important salt is for our body and how many lakhs of people die every year due to it.
BBC World Service has done a program on this called 'The Food Chain'. This shows how dangerous salt can be for our body. However, there are many experts who say that salt is essential for our body. For example, Paul Breslin, a professor of nutritional sciences at Rutgers University in the United States, told the BBC, “Salt is essential for life.”
This is because salt is very important for active human cells. Apart from this, if we do not consume enough sodium then we can also die. In fact, sodium deficiency can lead to a condition called hyponatremia, which can lead to serious conditions like confusion, vomiting, seizures, irritability, and coma.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is necessary to consume 5 grams of salt in the daily diet. 5 grams of salt contains about 2 grams of sodium, which is equivalent to one teaspoon. However, people do not eat just 5 grams of salt but use double that amount. According to a WHO report, globally people consume an average of 11 grams of salt every day. This increases the risk of heart disease, stomach cancer, osteoporosis, obesity and kidney disease.
Talking about the deaths caused by salt every year, the World Health Organization estimates that about 18.9 million people die every year due to salt across the world. Salt does not play a direct role in these deaths. Instead, salt plays a role in causing and increasing diseases that kill people. Therefore, health experts always recommend minimizing the use of salt. People are also given this kind of advice for diabetes.
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