According to a new study, those who always add extra salt at the dinner table could have two years knocked off of their life expectancy by 50 years old compared to those who never add extra salt.
Extra salt from the salt shaker everyday at dinner time could end up contributing more than flavour to your life — according to a new study, those who always add extra salt to cooked food are more likely to die prematurely than those who rarely do.
"To my knowledge, our study is the first to assess the relation between adding salt to foods and premature death," Lu Qi, a professor with Tulane University and lead author of the study, said in“It provides novel evidence to support recommendations to modify eating behaviours for improving health.
Participants were followed for nine years on average, and during this study period, 18,474 premature deaths — defined as those who died before reaching 75 years of age — were recorded among participants. The study adjusted for possible mitigating factors such as age, sex, smoking, alcohol intake, diet, physical activity levels and existing medical conditions.
"Adding salt to foods at the table is a common eating behaviour that is directly related to an individual's long-term preference for salty-tasting foods and habitual salt intake,” Qi said. "In the Western diet, adding salt at the table accounts for 6-20 per cent of total salt intake and provides a unique way to evaluate the association between habitual sodium intake and the risk of death.
However, those who have been identified by their doctor as being at a high risk for issues such as cardiovascular disease and have a high salt intake already should maybe consider cutting down the amount of salt they add on top of the amount in their food already, she stated.
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