SALT
Salt adds flavor to food and has always been highly prized.
Packaged and take-away foods contain a lot of salt which seems to blunt our taste so that we require large amounts or we think food lacks taste.
There is some evidence that an increased intake of salt may be responsible for an increase in the cases of high blood pressure.
It is not suggested we should avoid salt but that salt intake should be reduced. We may miss it for a few weeks until our taste buds recover from the years of excessive intake.
Professor Morgan, professor of medicine at the University of Newcastle, has estimated that, in a population with a high salt intake, the incidence of high blood pressure related to salt intake will be 20 per cent, whereas those on a reduced intake will have an incidence of only five per cent. A low intake will reduce this further to between one and five per cent.
Reducing salt intake is an easier and cheaper method of controlling blood pressure than having to take drugs.
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