Children eat too much salt

The seven-year children today consume salt more than the recommended diet for an adult. Excess salt in the diet of children leads to the formation of a variety of diseases including heart diseases and cancer.

Experts in the field of healthy nutrition emphasize that contained in finished products such as heated by pasta or cereal, salt   unacceptably high. And it becomes another addition to the already high amount of salt that children receive every day.

Doctors recommend an adult per day to consume no more than six grams of salt. And it's not just about the product in its pure form, which we add to food, but also of the salt that is already in the semi-finished or finished food. According to British researchers, today children's diet and adolescents aged 7 to 14 years, contains an average of 6, 4 grams of salt for boys and 5 for girls 6 g. If the adults were able to reduce salt   at diet for children   42%, this would reduce more than two times the number of patients suffering from high blood pressure.

In general, the British children and adolescents who consume too much salt, the risk in adulthood of becoming victims of serious diseases, including Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. In addition, poor children's diet   and lack of physical activity leads to a surge in childhood obesity. Even today, his victims are 10% of all students of preparatory classes, and 18% of children aged 10-11 years.

Reduction the amount of salt   only 2-3 grams per day will help your child become a healthy and strong person in the future.

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