WHEN you sit down to eat your dinner, what condiment do you reach for first? If you’re likely to use salt at meal times, you’ll be sad to hear your risk of premature death is higher. We already kno…
It equates to around one additional death in a group of 100 people aged 40 to 69.
At the age of 50, 1.5 years and 2.28 years were knocked off the life expectancy of women and men, respectively, according to the findings published in the European Heart Journal. The risks of early death among those who ate the most salt tended to be reduced slightly in people who consumed the highest amounts of fruit and vegetables.
“To my knowledge, our study is the first to assess the relation between adding salt to foods and premature death,” he said.
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