Blogpost 7: Salt and Sugar

Cutting back on your fast food can significantly decrease your overall salt intake and sugar. Most restaurant overuse salt, which can quickly increase your daily consumption. When you consume too much, it may increase the salt content of your blood and increase blood volume. Sugar or glucose that can create your blood sugar levels or diabetics. 

I found an article entitled, "Salt Secret", by Emily Sohn, from the site of atudent.societyscience.org. The article talks about that, we may not notice salt in ingredient, even we may eat a lot of it. Salt is made up of sodium and chlorine. Wherein we need small amount of sodium for our muscle and nerves. But too much sodium can cause the body to produce more blood. Nowadays, 90% adult develop hypertension. Salt can affect heart, weight, kidney and waistline. Most of the people don't spend much time worrying their health disease unless they reach to the point of middle age or older. The author gives way to reduce the amount of sodium, this as to start sprinkling the condiments and reading the nutrition labels. According to the author, "The salt that you sprinkle into food is easy to measure. Unfortunately, it may be just a fraction of the total salt in your daily diet"

I agree with the author. Salt is not harmful in moderate amounts. I found out that there is also benefits in salt. Here are the different types and their benefits. First, Sea Salt contains a selenium which helps to chelate toxic heavy metals from the body, chromium and osteoporosis. Second, Table Salt, helps balance the blood pressure. third, Fake Sea Salt from the word"fake" which means not real salt that gives off white color unlike the real salt that gray or slightly pink.         

 I found another article entitled, "Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants", by Joanna Blythman, from the site of hteguardian.com. The journalist author gained information from hundred of current and former food industry insides like nutrition scientist, lobbyists and more. The articles talks about the junk food is like drugs wherein the formulation of product is addictive.There are three ingredient salt, sugar and fat. Many commentors who sell products like fried chicken and many more oily food have no problem signing the argument though it many chemicals. Sugar is known for dietary that agree to hate. According to the author, "They may have salt, sugar and fat on their side and all we need is to make good choices."

I agree because nowadays, as we can see, there's a lot of junk food that surrounds us. They are all appealing to our eyes but we need to be smart in choosing foods that really fit to our body and makes as totally healthy. Person get addicted if and only if they will he or she will not lessen eating junk food.

I conclude that eating junk food is addicted because of the changes of the brain that can leads to overeating. The brain responds to junk food the same way it does to heroin.