No salt for baby

Without salt, food may taste like disaster to you. This is why you are wondering whether you should add salt to your baby’s food.

Babies are different from adult. Without salt, food will not be tasteless to them.

Baby will need salt, they just need 1 gram of salt. All these sodium can be obtained from formula milk or breast milk, and hence, it is not necessary for you to add any salt to your baby’s food.

First, a high salt intake has been shown to increase blood pressure and this increases the risk of heart related diseases.

When you add salt to your baby’s food, your baby may develop a dependency on salt. Once you stop adding salt, they may find it the food tasteless. This will make feeding harder as time goes by.

Other harmful effects of high salt intake include childhood obesity, higher risk of stomach cancer later in life, higher risk of kidney disease and asthma.

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