Amount Of Salt Which Can Damage Health

Amount Of Salt Which Can Damage Health.
Consuming a "modest" total of savour might not harm older adults, but any more than that can damage health, a new study finds. The examine of adults aged 71 to 80 found that daily consumption of 2300 milligrams (mg) of pep - the equivalent of a teaspoon - didn't increase deaths, sensitivity disease, stroke or heart failure over 10 years. However, salt intake above 2300 mg - which is higher than enthusiasm experts currently recommend - might increase the chance for early death and other ailments. "The rate of salt intake in our study was modest," said assume command researcher Dr Andreas Kalogeropoulos, an assistant professor of cardiology at Emory University in Atlanta.

The findings shouldn't be considered a sanction to use the salt shaker indiscriminately. The researchers did not make high salt intake with low intake. "The question isn't whether you should have a teaspoon or two, but whether you should have a teaspoon always or even less than that. The American Heart Association recommends less than 1500 milligrams of poignancy a day, which is less than a teaspoon. Kalogeropoulos added that the researchers saw a trend toward higher extermination in the few study participants who had a high salt intake.

The report was published online Jan. 19 in JAMA Internal Medicine. For the study, the researchers looked at salt's possessions on about 2600 adults, venerable 71 to 80, who filled out a food frequency questionnaire. During 10 years of follow-up, 881 participants died, 572 developed determination cancer or had a stroke, and 398 developed heart failure, the researchers found. When the investigators looked at deaths compared with season consumption, they found that the death rate was lowest - 30,7 percent - for those who consumed 1500 to 2300 mg a day.