Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Make your food Healthier- 2.Salt Reduction

Do you know haw many salt eat everyday? You are maybe surprised how many salt eat per day. Salt is an essential seasoning but too much thing is harmful. It causes cancer and heart disease definitely, and very dangerous to high blood pressure. Salt takes a high risk than Fat. You need to awake to its danger.

Our body needs at least 1.3g salt per day to continue body working, and WHO limits amount of salt ingestion-5g- per day. However, people takes so many salt these days.

Finland already started to reduce taking salt and they succeed. Finlander use a low sodium salt and always check how many salt contain this product.
Since 2000, U.K government also started salt reduction. They warns HIDDEN SALT. There are a lot of salt in food even though we couldn't catch it.

If you want more information about salt reduction, please visit these web site.
http://www.salt.gov.uk
http://www.food.gov.uk



posted by JIWON

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