September 29 is World Heart Day 2014:
Reduce daily salt intake to reduction than 5 grams per adult, recommends WHO
Over a past few decades, a occurrence of heart illness has increasing tremendously and it seems to have surpassed all a bounds of wild risk factors that progressing were compared with increasing risk of heart disease. Today, controllable risk factors like diet, earthy loitering and highlight mostly establish a risk of heart disease. One such diet-related risk cause that is compared with heart illness is salt intake.
Indeed, the World Health Organisation (WHO), in a statement, yesterday, ahead of the WHD, said people around the world are consuming more energy-dense foods that are high in saturated fats, trans fats, sugars, and salt. Salt is the primary source of sodium and increased consumption of sodium is associated with hypertension and increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
According to a study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), reducing salt intake provides clear benefits for the heart and kidney health of patients with chronic kidney disease. The findings point to the power of salt restriction in potentially prolonging kidney disease patients' lives.
"An estimated 2.5 million deaths could be prevented each year if global salt consumption were reduced to the recommended level."
The researchers found that on average, low salt intake reduced excess extracellular fluid volume by one liter, lowered blood pressure by 10 /4 mm Hg, and halved protein excretion in the urine, without causing significant side effects.
Salt consumption at home can be reduced by: not adding salt during the preparation of food; not having a salt shaker on the table; limiting the consumption of salty snacks; and choosing products with lower sodium content.
With many countries now seeing a rapid rise in obesity among infants and children, WHO in May 2014 set up a commission on childhood obesity. The Commission will draw up a report for 2015 specifying which approaches and actions are likely to be most effective in different contexts around the world.
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