healthy-own.blogspot.com - Do you often dizzy? If you often feel dizzy for no apparent reason , it might be time to start reducing salt intake from food. Research has shown that reducing salt can relieve headache by a third.
Reducing salt intake approximately three grams a day is proven to reduce the dizziness. Three grams of salt alone is equivalent to half a teaspoon , or the amount of salt contained in french fries fast food restaurants. Reducing salt intake can relieve headaches due to blood pressure and pulse rate drop.
Not only that , people with normal blood pressure also experienced reduced headache after they reduce salt intake.
In the study , researchers asked 400 random people adopt a low-fat diet that only eat fruits , vegetables and low-fat dairy products , or run a Western diet as the control group.
The participants eating foods with salt content of nearly 9 grams of salt a day during the period , which reflects that the average salt consumption in the United States.
Then the amount of salt is reduced to 6 grams of salt a day (the upper limit of the recommended daily salt) for the same period of time , before they end up doing low-salt diet is three grams per day during the final period.
The scientists found that reducing salt intake of 9 grams per day to three grams per day can reduce the dizziness to 31 percent