Salt, control your intake
Salt is major contributor to heart and kidney disease and diabetes.
Salt is important for good nerve and muscle functioning, as well as helping to control blood sugar by maintaining the right levels of stomach acid. But too much salt can be harmful to your health.
Although salt aids good digestion, reduces stress hormones, improves sleep quality and the rate of metabolism, encourages a healthy weight, supports healthy thyroid function and balances hormone levels, the sodium content of your food can increase the risk of developing high blood pressure, which is the main cause of strokes and a major contributor to heart and kidney disease and diabetes.
Conventional table salt is made up of 40 per cent sodium, but thanks a recent innovation by Cerebos Ltd, we can avoid this harmful substance.
The company has launched Cerebos Lite Salt, a salt alternative that will allow consumers to make healthy lifestyle choices and reduce their salt intake to healthy levels, as it contains 65 per cent sodium chloride and 35 per cent potassium chloride.“It’s about achieving a balance. Salt does play an important part in health but, like most good things, it can be harmful when used in excess,” said Nico Basson, part of the marketing team at Cerebos Ltd.
According to the World Health Organisation, adults should consume no more than 2 000mg of sodium per day, which is equivalent to a 5g teaspoonful of salt. South Africans’ average salt consumption is between 7,8g and 9,8g daily, depending on culture and associated eating preferences.
“Sodium is found naturally in foods such as dairy products, eggs, meat and vegetables, but in much higher levels in ready-made and processed foods. These ‘hidden salts’ make up about 75 per cent of the salt we consume.
The first step to keeping your sodium levels low is to cut down on these foods, and eat more whole, unprocessed foods, fruit and vegetables”, said Nico.
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