A new study of foreign experts showed: the passion for salty foods and snacks provokes in the human body the biological processes associated with intensive accumulation of adipose tissue. In particular, scientists have established, too active consumption of salt leads to obesity of the liver.

The link between the excess of salt in the diet and the accumulation of fat in the body found the authors of a joint scientific project, a group of physicians from the United States and Venezuela. Experts concluded that lovers of the whole salt risk to get obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and insulin resistance (with it, in turn, is associated with the development of diabetes).

Scientists have conducted experiments in mice that have shown that excess salt changes the body's absorption of fructose. In such circumstances, a metabolic syndrome develops that provokes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. At the same time, researchers noted, fructose can not only penetrate the body with some food, but also be produced by the body itself, produced from glucose by the enzyme aldose reductase.

"An excess of salt serves as a stimulus to the activation of fructose synthesis in the liver, which in turn leads to resistance to leptin, a hormone that controls the energy metabolism in the body," scientists explained the relationship between salt intake and active fat redistribution.

According to the authors of the work, in order to avoid health problems salt should be consumed in food in the amount of no more than 6 grams per day.

In addition, the issue of salt consumption was explored in parallel by scientists from the Imperial College of London in the UK and Northwestern University in the United States. They found that high amounts of salt can be dangerous for people with hypertension. Hypertension is characterized by increased hydrostatic pressure in the vessels, hollow organs or in the body cavities - against this background the risk of damaging the blood vessels, heart and kidneys, heart attack, stroke and other serious complications increases..

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