Outside Reading #7

(Korean Article...)about eating salt
WHO and korean health care organization said we eat too many salts in our life. If we eat too many salts and it don's come out than it can cause the disease, 'hypertension' which can kill 25% of patients who get this disease. They said our needed amount of salts per day is 5grams, but now a days people eat 12grams a day, so they warned this problem. Korean foods usually have more salts in it than other country foods. So 27% of south koreans have hypertension and more than 50% of people who are sixty to sixty- nine have hypertension. Also this diseas cause the stomach cancer. so we need to decreas our eating amount of salt. we usually eat noodle, but it has 5 grams amount of salt, so we have to avoid. Salts are really important for our health, but it's also dangerous if we take too much.