World Salt Awareness Week on 20-26th March is a good time to focus on how much salt you are eating and the effect it is having on your body.
Why You Need Salt
Table salt provides sodium which is vital for life. Sodium is actively pumped in and out of cells, in exchange for potassium. This maintains the electrical potential that allows muscles to contract, your heart to beat and your brain to send electrical messages via the nervous system.
In fact, pumping sodium in-and-out of your cells is one of the main energy-consuming processes in the body and is estimated to account for a third of your daily energy needs.
Where salt is essential, use mineral-rich rock salt rather than table salt. Kaboompics // Karolina //Pexels
