The intake of salt over the last 30 years in the UK has greatly risen...

Nutritionists and doctors are still undecided about whether you should completely cut out salt from your diet or whether sprinkling salt on all of your food really doesn’t make any difference at all. However a new research project that we have come across at Ukmedix News is that there could be great benefits for your heart in cutting out as much salt as possible from your diet.

The scientific research that was done at the Harvard Medical School based in Boston and at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in the same city noted that people who had blood pressure which was borderline high and then who cut out salt from their diet by between 25 and 35 percent subsequently reduced the risk of suffering from heart disease by 25 percent. The researchers also noted that the lower percentage risk of heart disease continued for between ten and fifteen years.

The researchers questioned and examined over 3,000 men and women over a long period of time to establish the effects of low salt diets and how they would affect blood pressure, and without a doubt a low salt diet can definitely reduce all kinds of cardiovascular illnesses and also reduce the chances of you dying by as much as twenty percent.

At Ukmedix News we always encourage healthy eating and as much as possible we try to get our readers to stay away from processed food which often is high in salt. Manufacturers of food often disguise the fact that they add salt to food by listing the added salt as sodium which many people do not realise is exactly the same as salt.  The intake of salt over the last 30 years in the UK has greatly risen and along with the growing obesity problem could be a major reason for the increase in heart disease all over the country.

You do not need to add salt to your food as it occurs naturally in most foods and therefore you will not suffer from any sort deficiencies by eating normally and not adding salt.