By Thomas Sinclair

You might have heard from your relative, friend or a doctor about negative effects of salt. It is totally true about table salt consumption, but it is NOT true when it comes to organic sea salts. Let's examine how salt and health interact in more depth.

Salt or sodium chloride utilized in many ways for instance chlorine production, manufacture of soaps and textiles. At the same time as salt is constructive in other spheres of our lives, high sodium consumption is clinically proven to be destructive to our body in high concentrations. People with high blood pressure are at higher risks.


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The main reason for that is salt intake produces Nitric Oxide in our body. Nitric Oxide is a chemical responsible for many pathological and physiological processes in mammals. Too much of Nitric oxide (NO) can be detrimental and toxic that can contribute to vascular tissue collapse, diabetes, arthritis and other conditions.

On this note, it is important to know the difference between regular table salt and sea salts. Regular salt is chemically bleached and deadly to our body. On the other hand, organic salts are natural and contain all of the vital minerals and nutrients that our body needs. That is why chose your salt wisely because your body still needs some salt to function properly.

Quite a few health organizations recommend to consumers to take on average 4gm of salt a day. Even so, it has been anticipated that an average person consumes double of the suggested dosage.

How to lower your salt intake:

Following from Dr. Sanders research from University of Maryland, a good indication of too much salt is when a person can taste it.

The main the most important step is to substitute your regular table salt to more pure version of salt. For example, "Sea salt" or "Gray salt" can be changed instead of using ordinary table salt. This is the cleanest type of salt without additional chemicals. Look for salts such as roasted salt, sea salt, wasabi salt, green tea salt etc. in your supermarket or specialty store.

Second, by removing salt shaker from the table or changing it "salt imitator" can dramatically reduce salt consumption. As a rule of thumb avoid processed foods. Many processed foods, canned foods already contain too much salt, so by staying away from these products and by paying attention to nutritious boxes an average person can change daily sodium intake.

You can also control how much salt is in your food by requesting meals cooked without salt when you are eating out. Do not feel shy to ask. Not only you are paying for it, you are also improving your health! So go ahead and ask for no salt in your food!

Recent research indicates, even genetically predisposed people to hypertension that eat less salt have lower risk to develop the disease then the people who consumed too much salt.

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