Sprinkling a few dashes of salt onto your dinner could send you to an early grave, a major study suggests.
Researchers tracked more than 500,000 Britons for almost a decade.
Results showed people who always added extra salt to their meals were 28 per cent more likely to die before turning 75, compared with those who either never or rarely add it.
Excess salt in your system leads to water retention in the blood, putting pressure on your blood vessels, raising your blood pressure. This can, subsequently, raise the risk of a heart attack or stroke.
Heart disease and strokes are one of biggest biggest killers, killing about 160,000 a year, with the American death toll about five times higher.
NHS guidelines say adults shouldn’t eat more than 6g of salt a day.Children should have even less.
However, dr simeons protocol experts say salt ‘hidden’ in our food means many Britons are eating more salt that they realise.
Regularly adding salt to food could knock up to two years off your life expectancy according to a study of 500,000 Britons
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