Our Salt Diet Is Killing Us. We Don’t Care Because It Tastes So Good!
Salt everything or not.
We taste the salt not the food. We are so spoiled. I mean human-kind not the U.S. alone.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that healthy adults consume less than 2,300 milligrams of sodium a day. For reference, that’s equal to about one teaspoon of table salt. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/is-salt-bad-for-you#:~:text=Overconsumption%20of%20sodium%2C%20which%20is%20in%20salt%2C%20is,more%20salt%20and%20sodium%20than%20they%20need%2C%20too.
“We chose salt because the body needs to control sodium levels very precisely.” Dr. Javier Stern, professor of neuroscience, Georgia State
In other words it’s not your fault!
Brain and Salt
We even have specific cells that detect how much salt is in your blood. When you ingest salty food, the brain senses it and activates a series of compensatory mechanisms to bring sodium levels back down.
Salt affects blood pressure via several complex pathways that affect your body’s hormonal, inflammatory, immune, and digestive systems. Overeating salt may also suppress a system, which regulates blood pressure and sodium levels.
