Spices most murderous in the world?

Want to save millions of lives every year to put salt in the special control area, the researchers announced at the Rio2012 Nutrition Conference.

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'Salt - when added to food - is the main cause of hypertension, and hypertension is the cause of millions of deaths worldwide , ' said Professor Graham MacGregor of Queen Mary University (England). ) affirmed. Evidence of the harmful effects of salt is also much equivalent to smoking, he said.

Limiting salt can help millions of people escape death each year.

Salt, which is sodium chloride, is a very important ingredient for human health: we need about 350 milligrams of sodium (equivalent to the weight of half a raisin) every day to be healthy. Unfortunately, most of us consume 10 times more on average than that.

Most of the sodium in the body comes from processed foods but the user doesn't recognize it. A potato chip bag is an obvious culprit when it contains more than 250 milligrams of sodium. The same is a slice of bread bought outside the store or a bowl of breakfast cereals. The heavier culprits are canned vegetables, canned soups and frozen dinners, all containing about 1,000 milligrams of sodium.

However, worst off-line meals: namely fast food can hold up to 2000 milligrams of sodium per meal.

Reducing salts can help 1.25 million people escape the risk of death from stroke and nearly 3 million others lose their lives because of cardiovascular diseases every year, a study in the British Medical Journal year. 2009 said.

Professor MacGregor recommends that users be aware of the risk of salt and spices that they still use every day. Besides, the Government also needs to have measures to mobilize and even regulate the food industry to limit the use of salt during processing.

However, the speakers at Rio2012 also admitted that the big obstacle is that the food companies themselves are very fond of salt. They make the food more palatable, making the user thirstier and thus selling drinks. Users themselves have also been "bad mouths" so abandoning salt is very difficult.