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How Much Salt Do You Need for a Healthy Diet?
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Mar 26, 2015 - 2:03:04 PM

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Mothers everywhere understand that the food kids eat is more than just a collection of nutrients arranged on a plate. "Eat a balanced diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables and in moderation" has been sage motherly advice for a long time. Unfortunately, conflicting information from a variety of sources can make it difficult to follow Mom's good advice. For example, consider one nutrient that's essential for life yet often gets a bum rap - salt.

The average American eats about 3,400 mg per day of sodium, according to The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. You may have heard that this is too much, but according to new research it may actually be on the low side of the healthy range. A 2014 study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, tested sodium consumption in more than 100,000 people in 17 countries. The study found that the healthy range for sodium consumption was between 3,000 and 7,000 mg per day. Eating more than 7,000 mg per day of sodium increases your risk of death or cardiovascular incidents, but not as much as eating less than 3,000 mg per day. The low salt diet was significantly more harmful than the high salt diet.

These results are not as surprising as they seem. Another study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association three years earlier, found the same results. This study measured the sodium intake of more than 3,500 people for the better part of a decade. Researchers discovered that low sodium diets were much more likely to result in death from cardiovascular disease.

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