If you take a very high quantity of salt then it would cause deterioration of your health. This is due to the fact that too much salt increases the blood pressure. This may lead to stroke and other heart ailments.

It has been a common observation that men consume 11 g of salt while women consume 8.1 gm on a regular basis. Around 75% of salt comes from processed foods, 10-15% is supplemented by end users and 10-15% is noticeably present in food. The above result is in accordance to the FSA report.

It has also been reported that around 170,000 deaths in England per year is caused by excess consumption of salts.

According to the medical tests, if you reduce the amount of salt in your diet then chances are high that the cholesterol level in your blood will fall. But there remains a greater risk of your pressure to fall below the normal once you reduce salt consumption to a great level. Sir John expressed his own views about high blood pressure and termed it as the silent killer.

Hypertension may be another outcome behind the huge consumption of salt and salty food by a particular person. Moreover, chances are not so low, that the males are more prone to heart attacks and strokes than the females.