14 DAY TRIAL // Only a couple of days ago, the online community was taken aback by the news that the sugar found in soft drinks can be linked to 180,000 yearly deaths worldwide. Still, the findings of this investigation pale in comparison to those of a research which says that the salt found in pre-made meals kills roughly 2.3 million people worldwide on a yearly basis.
Ironically enough, the specialists now claiming that salt is significantly more detrimental to public health than soft drinks are the same that issued the report on sugar and its taking a heavy toll on one's wellbeing.
By the looks of it, 250,000 of the 2.3 million deaths that can be attributed to a high intake of salt are recorded in the United States alone.
This basically means that 1 in 10 Americans can be argued to die because of a medical condition whose underlying cause is their consuming a tad too much salt.
To make matters even worse, it appears that the elderly are not the only ones to suffer the health consequences of a salt-rich diet.
Quite the contrary: it is being said that 1 in 3 individuals who die because of a high salt intake is under the age of 70. Daily Mail quotes Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, who wished to make the following observations:
“The burden of sodium is much higher than the burden of sugar-sweetened beverages. That’s because sugar-sweetened beverages are just one type of food that people can avoid, whereas sodium is in everything.”
“It’s really affecting younger adults, not just the elderly,” said specialist went on to argue.
The same source informs us that, as far as specialists are concerned, the only way to curb one's salt intake or at least try to keep it under control is to take up the habit of cooking one's meals using nothing but raw and unprocessed ingredients.
The findings of this research were presented during the latest meeting of the American Heart Association in New Orleans.