Salt And Its Uses

Salt and Its Uses


         As we know, salt is the most useful resource found on earth. In Ancient

Rome, salt was used as part of the salary to the soldiers.  From this, we can

see that salt was as valuable as gold in the past.

         In our daily life, besides making nutritious food more palatable, salt

is very useful in making bakery products, canned and frozen foods.  Salt is a

good preservative that retards the growth of micro-organisms to make food

storage possible for a long period of timie before refrigeration.

         Recently, an opinion that is harmful to our health was raised by Dr.

Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr,. former comissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug

Admistration in 1981. The American Heart Dissociation, the American Medical

Association also joined the low-salt appeal.  They believe that sodium salt is

connected with heart disease, circulator disorder, stroke  and even early death.

         By many doctors and researchers are now beginning to feel that salt has

gone  too far.  At the University of Alabama, a short-term research has been

done on 150 people on the effect of the intake of salt related to high blood

pressure. Result shows that those with normal blood pressure experience no

change at all when placed in a extremely low salt diet, or later when salt was

introduced, Of the hypertensive subjects, half of those on the low salt diet did

experience a drop in blood pressure, which returned to its previous lee
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