Too Much Salt Cause Hypertension, Stroke, and Other Disease

Salt is very popular ingredients that never absence from our food. Almost every food in all over the world always uses salt. Salt is composed from mineral called natrium chloride, with the composition 40% natrium and 60% chloride. Actually this mineral is important for our body, but not in excessive amount.

The ion of natrium chloride in small amount is needed by our body to keep arrange the amount of water in the body. Not only needed to keep the balance of water, but we also need salt to help the transmission of nerve impulse to the brain. Natrium also have a role in contraction and relaxation of our muscles because it can pull water like a magnet.

Beside those good advantages, the excessive amount also has bad effect to our body. Here is the danger of salt: 

1. Hypertension. Based on research which involve more than 10.000 people in 52 research centre, the excessive amount of salt are proven to cause hypertension, which is the source of many complication such as heart attack, paralyze and stroke. 
2. Cardiovascular problem. It is already proven by many researches that there are connection between high rate of salt intake, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. A decrease in dietary salt intake will decrease blood pressure, irrespective of sex, race, age, physical activity level, and body mass.
3. Stroke. People who consume less salt are having less risk on stroke. In fact, studies say that reduce 1 gram of salt can also diminish the risk of stroke up to 15%.
4. Fluid retention. The numbers of natrium in the body are determining the level of fluid. If too much salt are eaten, the kidney will had difficulties to eliminate the excessive salt and the body will repent the fluids. This situation sometimes cause swelling around heart.
5. Hair problem. Consume too many salt also can make problems to hair such as hoary and loss hair. Osteoporosis. Excessive salt will restrain the absorption of calcium and cause osteoporosis. A study to post menopause woman said that woman who eat more salt will lose more bone mineral than they who didn’t.