WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SALT AND ITS HARMFUL EFFECTS ON HUMAN BODY

Salt which is also called SODIUM CHLORIDE is widely used in the cooking of foods. 

 But are you aware of the hidden poisons in your daily food intake?

WHAT IS SODIUM CHLORIDE? 

Table salt is composed of 40% and 60% chloride. The human body needs salt to function. Salt is responsible to help carry nutrients into the cells. It helps regulate other bodily functions such as blood pressure and fluid volume.

It is now that it is really table salt that is causing many untold health problems, regardless of its amount. Because it is refined and processed, what is left of table salt is only sodium and chloride which are toxic to the body.

I will unfold here the hidden salt in commercial food that is extremely harmful to our body.

Sodium Additives

Table salt is commonly used as a seasoning, or pickling agent or preservatives in home cooked foods. However, food manufactures also add some other forms of sodium into foods that is sold to the uninformed public.

It is the excessive sodium in salt that causes many degenerative diseases. Chloride is almost harmless. The food you eat may not taste salty, but let me show you how sodium are hidden in your food.

Excessive sodium of any form can cause high blood pressure  (hypertension) which rapidly increase the risks of strokes and heart disease, the major killers in the recent times in Nigeria, Malaysia and in many developed countries.

There are more than 40 known sodium additives. Here is only a short list of additives that commonly used commercially manufactured foods.                                            

MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (MSG) as flavor enhancers is present in many package, canned and restaurant food. Commonly used in packet or canned soups, instant noodles, stock cubes, condiments, sauce, snacks, pickles, and canned milk.

SODIUM SACCHARINE as artificial sweetner. This sodium does not taste salty, infact it is actually used sweetner. It is harmful all the same, causing the same problem that table salt would. Commonly used in diet soda, dietetic food and as sugar substitute.

SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE as a                                                             sequestrant-This agent is used to combine with trace metals in food to render them inactive. Also used leavening mixture for self rising in cakes, dough-nuts, waffles,  

muffins, cupcakes. Also found in sausages and hotdogs. See? Sodium is not necessarily.

SODIUM AGINATE OR CABOXYMETHY CELLULOSE----This is used as a stabilizer, thickener, and texturizer. As an agent to stabilize, retain or intensify the color of foods and prevent sugar from crystallizing. It also increases viscosity and modify food texture. Commonly used in beverages, beer, ice-cream, chocolate-favored drinks, cheese spreads frozen custard, deserts, baked good and pie fillings, diet foods and even baby foods(do we know what we are feeding to our babies?)

SODIUM BENZOATE---It is used as flavoring and anti-microbial preservatives. It has no taste of its own, but it enhances the natural flavor of foods. Usually used when little other natural ingredients are present, as in margarine, soft drinks, milk, pickles, confection, fruit jelly and jams.

SODIUM PROPIONATE----It acts as a preservative to extend the shelf-lives of foods by preventing the growth of micro organisms that hasting the spoilage. Mostly present in all breads, rolls, pastries, pies and cakes.