Top 7 Alarming Signs You Need to Cut Down On Salt!

Last Updated on February 19, 2020

5. Changes in urination

When sodium accumulates in your body, it can cause unhealthy changes in urination.

Eating too much salt makes your kidneys work harder and longer to get rid of the excess salt in your body. This might lead to kidney disease that can alter urination, making it more frequent and transparent.

What’s more, too much salt in your body can lead to dehydration, and when your body is experiencing a water loss, the urine may become less frequent, dark-colored, and thick.

4. Achy bones

This is one of the worst health risks of eating too much salt. It may be hard to grasp, but a high salt intake can damage your bones by making them less sturdy and achy.

What happens is that when you consume more regular table salt than you should, you make it hard for your kidneys to flush all the unnecessary amounts of salt out of your body, thus dangerously boosting calcium loss.

A chronic calcium deficiency can lead to the onset of osteoporosis, weaken your bones, and cause various teeth problems.

3. Muscle cramps

It is important to maintain the proper potassium-sodium balance in your body because these two elements are responsible for muscle contraction.

When you eat plenty of salty foods or overuse your salt shaker, you alter your body’s potassium-sodium balance, leading to muscle cramps, tightness, and/or pain.

To avoid the terrible side effects of too much salt, you need to watch what you eat, stay away from saltshakers, and drink plenty of water.

2. Persistent headaches

Having too much sodium in your body can boost the volume of your blood, making it take up extra space in your blood vessels. The bad news is that when your blood vessels expand, you may experience hypertension (high blood pressure), which in turn leads to very bad headaches that don’t want to go away.

Persistent headaches can be maddening, making it hard to deal with normal daily life. So it’s best to avoid eating lots of salty foods or using too much salt while cooking.

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