Eating excessive salt is injurious

Adding salt separately in the food reduces the life expectancy of men by two years and life expectancy of women by one and half years. This was revealed after 9 years of research on 50 lakh people around the age of 50 in Britain.

Those who add salt frequently have 28% increased risk of early death, compared to people who have rarely or never added salt to their food. Professor Lu Qi of Tuland University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, US, claims that this is the first such study, in which the relationship between adding salt separately to food and early death has been found.

Five Lakh people in the UK Bio Bank Study were tracked for an average of nine years. When they took part in the study between 2006 and 2010, they were asked whether they added salt separately to food and how often they did so. The research did not include salt during the cooking process.

Other factors were also not ruled out in the study. For example, a person’s life expectancy can also be reduced due to lack of a healthy lifestyle, but the research team says that people should consider adding salt separately in the diet.