Key points from article :
Research involving 500,000 Britons reveals link to earlier death for those who always season their meals.
Always adding salt to food knocks more than two years off life expectancy for men and one-and-a-half years for women. (not the one while cooking).
“To my knowledge, our study is the first to assess the relationship between adding salt to foods and premature death,” said Prof Lu Qi of Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, the lead scientist.
“Even a modest reduction in sodium intake, by adding less or no salt to food at the table, is likely to result in substantial health benefits", he added.
Roughly 70% of sodium intake in western populations comes from processed and prepared food.
500,000 participants in the UK Biobank study were followed for an average of nine years.
Research by Tulane University published in European Heart Journal.
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