Investigation about Daily Salt Intake of Rural Household Member

Abstract

From the fact that adult diseases bring the highest death rate to the inhabitants in Yamagata Prefecture and essential hypertension is a major cause of these deaths today, the investigation of NaCl intake of the rural inhabitants concerning hypertension and nutrition was performed. At the same time, training of the propellent members for the betterment of dietary living was attempted.
The results obtained are the following.
I. An average salt intake of all the household members was 23.0gr a day, which was 1.7 times greater than the desirable quantity.
II. Eighty five per cent of the households had salt over intake.
III. Sources of 9.5gr of the average 23.0gr daily salt intake were soy and bean paste.
IV. All the households with one or more hypertensive family indicated the higher salt intake than those without hypertensive family.
V. High salt intake was commonly observed within the areas where nutritional unbalance was evident.
VI. Higher NaCl concentrations were demonstrated with the bean pastes and salted pickles examined.