Salt intake by 5 years-old and influence on their blood pressure

Thesis deals with problems of excessive salt intake in children. The goal of thesis was to monitor recieved amount of salt in five years old children. The second goal was to find out what is the effect of salt on their blood pressure. Theoretical part deals about physiology of sodium in human body, its balance and metabolism. Further are described negative impacts on health of individual, especially in children with excessive salt intake in the diet. Thesis points out what foods to avoid, or at least take a limited quantity. It also focus on the possibilities of reducing salt in food and how is salt used in food industry. In the next section I deal with children food and especially what kind of factors influence an individual's lifestyle and habits. In the practical part I deal with research of fifteen respondents. Research group is divided into three groups. The first group consists of respondents diet in kindergarten, the second group are children in orphanages and the last group are children, which eat at home. I used qualitative strategy for processing research, where I evaluated seven day diets of children in orphanages and in home environment. At the last set I evaluated their five-day meals and only snack, lunch and afternoon snack that children received in kindergarten. All forms for recording diet I evaluated in program "Nutriservis Professional". I also measured blood pressure to all respondents with digital barometer. I transferred measured blood pressure to the percentile values, which are intended for children. I compared the final amounts of received salt with the reference values determined by age. The results showed, that not a single respondent comply the recommended daily amount of salt. Correlation of blood pressure with salt intake is among respondents different