Adding salt to food increases the risk of premature death

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According to the study, people who add more salt to food at the table, are exposed to a higher risk of premature death.

The British Heart Foundation issued a warning that the habit of adding salt to food at the table is associated with the tendency of people to die early. Research shows that people who always add salt to their meals have a 28% higher risk of premature death than those who never or rarely add salt.

In particular, new calculations by the School of Public of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans and published in the European Heart Journal, indicate that one in every hundred people who add salt may die young. and men who have a habit of adding salt to their food is reduced by 1.5 and 2.28 years, respectively,” the scientists state.

We all need a certain amount of sodium in our diet, but its excess can lead to high blood pressure, which in turn increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.