HEALTHY LIVING: HOW MUCH SALT IS ENOUGH??

Well , salt is a very common word in everyone's life and it is easily available in kitchen , because it is main ingredient to add in our food or making drinks.

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As we all know , humans have 4 taste buds namely sweet, salt, bitter and sour in which salt is very important as we eat salt on daily basis.

So the question arise here is what if we eat too much salt? or is there any risk if we eat more salt?

Well, we should not stop consuming a salt. Instead, we should have less salt in our food or drinks. We should not eat too much salt because this will store extra water in your body ,hence blood
pressure will automatically raise up.

So, if blood pressure is higher chances are greater of strains on your kidney, brain, heart, as well as arteries. And it will further result in heart attack , stroke , kidney disease and dementia.

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Here are sodium related terms you may

see on food packages which you should

see very carefully while buying

something.

Signs that you are having too much sodium

1) Frequent need to pee: Yes, this is a first sign of having too much salt . You feel an urgent need to urinate, not only in day time but it will affect your night time also when you have to wake up to pee in a midnight. However, this is a reason of many other disease as well like UTIs , diabetes or overactive bladder, but having so much sodium in diet is a big reason of it.

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2) Incessant crave of water: You will be craving whole day for water because of consuming too much salt.when food with high sodium mixed with body's fluid that's the stage when you starts feeling thirsty. So the best solution for this is to drink lots of water so that the balance of salt in your body will restore.

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3) Swelling: If you consume so much salt you will notice that there is a swelling in different parts of body, You feel bloated due to this reason , swelling can be felt on face, fingers, ankle, it happens because of extravagant fluid in body's tissue.

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4) Urge to add salt: Have you ever felt the need to add extra salt on your food, even if it doesn't require any addition or you find your food tasteless without supplementing extra salt in it, well this happens because you are used to it and adding extra salt to your food is now your habit.

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5) Headache: If you experience frequent headaches then chances are that, its because of dehydration. Consuming too much salt will result in frequent short interval headaches due to dehydration.