If everyone reduces the amount of salt to
under 6 grams/day, each year, it can reduce 70,000 cases of stroke and coronary
thrombosis.
Salt has the important role to people’s
body. In body, salt will control the amount of water and maintain the balance
of juice of cells and body’s juice. Salt also attends the activities of
muscles. Salt is also the main component of plasma and gastric juice.
Salt is very important to cells
Our body is constructed from cells adults’
body has about 200 trillion of cells. Each cell has an extremely small electric
current with the power 70mV (negative) that goes through. On the surface of
cells, there are the pumps that are used to inflate positive ion, negative ion
in or out the wall of cells so that cells can maintain electric potential
-70MV. Salt is the combination of positive ion (Na+) with negative ion (Cl-).
Because cells accumulate minus charge, so they attract the positive ions, Na+.
Ion Cl- has the same system, so it will be eliminated through urine.
We can understand that without salt, cells
cannot maintain electric potential -70MV. Therefore, salt is very important to
people.
Salt
is very important to people’s body.
Not let children eat too much salt
If children eat too much salt, their body
will accumulate a lot of water and the whole part of containing juice will
increase remarkably. Scientists believe that this is one of the reasons that
cause high blood pressure with the result of heart disease and stroke.
Moreover, with a big volume of body’s juice around brain. Blood vessels in
brain will be downgraded. If the amount of redundant juice comes to heart, it
will affect coronary artery disease.
You
need to pay attention that you shouldn’t eat and drink the foods containing too
much salt.
Adults can “dispel” one part of redundant
salt due to kidney. On the contrary, newborn babies’ kidney doesn’t develop
completely, so it cannot eliminate the redundant salt. If children are under 4
months old, the redundant salt will accumulate in their body and cause the
diseases about kidney, liver, damaging for brain and in some cases, it can
cause death. Therefore, you need to pay attention that you shouldn’t eat and
drink the foods containing too much salt.
When salt is redundant, it will to body’s
juice and blood. When the amount of salt in blood is too high, the amount of
water in cells will be mobilized to blood to dilute salt, so cells will lose
water slowly and they will require to be provided water. This thing explains
the reason why you feel thirsty when you eat salty foods.
Be cautious with diabetes
Eating salt foods in a long time can
destroy cells and make the functions reduce. At this time, diabetes will
appear. To be simple, we can imagine that on cells have clocked holes and only
the correct keys can open them to give nutrients to bring up cells. If you eat
too much salt, clocked holes on cell membrane will change, so the key won’t
suitable any more. When eating, food will decompose into sugar molecules to
make the source of energy to raise cells. These sugar molecules depend on
insulin as “a key” to move into cells. Unfortunately, eating too salty, clocked
holes will be changed, so insulin key cannot open. At this time, body also has
sugar, but cells “feel hungry”. The amount of sugar in blood isn’t absorbed
into cells and as a result, it will lead to diabetes.
It isn’t good when people’s body lack sat.
This case is rare; however, when it takes place, it is as dangerous as having
spare salt. Lacking salt will cause disorder in body. It will have the symptoms
such as the contracting of muscle, slackness, and nauseating. People that often
sweat, work hard, or people live the areas that don’t adjust to the climate. In
these cases, you need to provide salt more to compensate the amount of salt
that is lost with sweat.
Only need 6 grams of salt/day
Physicians and nutritionists suggest that
adults should eat about 6 grams of salt/day. However, most of us provide our
body with 9-10 grams/day. Experts considered that if we reduce the amount of
sat to 6 grams/day, we can prevent 70,000 cases of stroke and coronary
thrombosis every year.
You
should eat a lot of vegetables and fruits.
The processed foods occupy 75% the medium
total amount of salt that body needs. You should eat a lot of vegetables and
fruits because these foods contain potassium that can balance the effects of
salt to body.
