Reduce salt consumption by using less salt in cooking and at the table. Reduce your intake of canned and preserved foods, including pickles. Include a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables in your daily diet. Once you start, it takes only a short while to get used to lower levels of salt.
Without salt food is tasteless, but eating it in excess will make you suffer with lot of ailments. Excessive intake adversely affects the digestive system at first. The digestive juices production is being slowed down by the intake of excessive salt. This leads to the indigestion problem. The excessive amount of the salt in the body increases the blood pressure. Insomnia is another health problem caused by eating salt in excess. The excessive intake of salt can lead to hypertension; this puts a lot of pressure on heart.