It is urgently necessary to conduct more scientific research on salt
When we buy a cloth , we consider many things , seeing the color and design , feeling the fabric , and even trying it on , and then we finally make our decision .
However , we don ’ t really pay attention to salt , which we eat every day and is directly related to our health . We are very interested in recipes to make food taste good , but we are ignorant about salt which decides the taste of food . Despite the fact that the role of salt in maintaining our health is not small , why don ’ t people seem to care about the kind of salt they use ?
That ’ s because the deep-rooted notion that ‘ salt is bad ’ has taken a place in the consciousness of people , and systematic and scientific research has been neglected . Modern science did not attempt to distinguish different types of salt , and has not made efforts to investigate the effects of salt on the body and its pharmacological efficacy .
The harmful salt theory such as ‘ salt increases blood pressure ’ or ‘ salt is harmful because it has too much sodium ’ has been spreading around the world for over 100 years . Does salt play a role in raising blood pressure ? We observed earlier that different types of salt have very different effects on the human body . In other words , mineral-rich salt can help maintain adequate blood pressure . Is salt harmful due to the large amount of sodium in it ? Sodium is a very important and essential mineral in the body . Sodium controls the bodily fluid and puts the acid and base equilibrium . Sodium also plays an important role in diverse biological activities such as nerve impulse transmission , muscle relaxant and normal functions of the cardiac operation , and
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