Heart disease expert sweets often warns about a component to be ignored, which can cause high blood pressure to complain. Usually, thick sea salt used for decorations on dishes like cookies, bread and butter and caramel contains more sodium than salt found in a grocery store. People eat too much salt inadvertently while enjoying the extra crisp of salty and sweet in sweets.
Actually, coarse salt crystals are large, so it tastes less and due to this people use this salt more than fine salt. According to the expert, excessive sodium intake is associated with high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and kidney problems.
Although the body requires small amounts of sodium to work properly, but it should be avoided to take more quantity. Sodium is an essential electrolyte that plays several important roles in the body that includes maintaining liquid balance and blood pressure, supporting nervous function and preventing muscles from shrinking.
However, most Indians consume too much sodium. On an average, a limit of 5 grams has been fixed per day but they take 8-11 grams per day. People believe that coarse sea salt contains less sodium than standard fine salt, while both contain about 40 percent sodium.
The World Health Organization also estimates that every year 1.9 million deaths worldwide are due to eating more salt. Because liquid substances accumulate in the body due to sodium, the amount of blood and pressure on the artery walls increases.
Dr. Brent Igan, a cardiologist in the American Medical Association and co-positive heart-health co -residant, says, “If someone has high blood pressure, heart disease or any such disease, he should not consume more than 1.5 grams of salt. A lot of sodium also causes flatulence, there is an uncomfortable feeling like stomach swelling and tightness. Due to this, there is a possibility of swelling in body parts like hands, legs and ankle and dehydration causes a feeling of thirst.
‘Eating too much salt before sleeping causes restlessness. Researches suggest that high-salt diet can change the level of cortisol (stress hormone) that controls the sleeping cycle.
A recent research conducted by researchers at Wanderbilat University found that consuming only 1 teaspoon of salt per day is similar to blood pressure medicine. He tested more and low -salt diet on hundreds of patients, some of which were suffering from high blood pressure and found that as soon as he stopped consuming a can henz soup daily, his blood pressure had reduced by 6 percent within a week.
Dr. Igan said, ‘Apparently we need some sodium because it is very important for the body but also adds salt from the food to the body increases its quantity in the body.’