“The cure for anything is salt,” says a character in Karen Blixen’s short story The Deluge at Norderney. Everyday life has got a lot saltier since Blixen’s era — and salt is no longer the cure-all it once was. So what should we be doing about it?

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends capping your salt intake at 5g a day, and keeping it even lower if possible. That’s because, according to a large body of evidence, eating a lot of it is linked to high blood pressure, which in turn is a risk factor for heart disease. More recently, extra salt has also been associated with stomach cancer.

So is the answer to put down the shaker? It’s a bit more complicated than that: as the British Heart Foundation notes, 75% of the salt that we eat is added before our food even hits our plates. The UK was a world leader in salt reduction, with the Food Standards Agency enforcing (施行) strict limits on how much could be included in most products.

In 2010, however, as the government introduced “responsibility deals”, the food industry itself took the lead in the process, with limits becoming much more voluntary. Now, even brands that would like to reduce the salt content of their foods are hamstrung by what everyone else is doing: apart from being one of the cheapest forms of flavouring available, salt can also be used to bulk up (增重) foods by increasing their water content.

“As a work partner of mine said, leaving it up to the manufacturers (制造商) is like putting a mosquito in charge of a blood bank,” says Graham MacGregor, a professor of medicine. “Some supermarkets want better enforcement, but it has to come from above.”

The answer, then, is that this is one health concern that we should probably be collectively worrying about. You can take steps like cooking most of your meals and avoiding takeaways and ready meals. But it’s not an option for everyone. “If you really want to lower your salt intake, the best first step might be to write to your MP (国会议员),” says MacGregor.

Every day, 15-year-old Martha wrote on the Internet about the meal she ate at school. She also took pictures of the food. However, Martha was very honest about the food. She did not just describe the food. She judged the taste and health of the food.   

Martha also began to use her blog for an important reason. She began to raise money for the organization Mary’s Meals in the East African country of Malawi. It provides food for children in schools for free. Martha encouraged her readers to send money to Mary’s Meals to help build a kitchen.

But then, Martha began to have a problem. Many people read her blog. She became big news. The news stories showed that the food at Martha’s school was not always healthy. And that made some people angry. So the school officials decided to stop Martha’s blog. They said that she could not take her camera to school.   

But an amazing thing happened. Many people began sending messages of support across the Internet. Martha’s story was even bigger than before. Now the officials had to change their minds. A few days later, Martha was again writing her blog. But more than that, people had sent a lot of money for the Malawi school children. Martha had hoped to raise about 10,000 dollars. But the total reached 10,000 dollars and still kept on growing!

Martha’s blog also helped to improve meals at her school. One day she wrote: As we waited for dinner we were told that we are allowed to eat as much fruit and bread as we want.

No one knows what will happen to Martha’s blog in future. But already this little girl has helped to change the eating experience of many children just by sharing on the Internet pictures of her school meals.

India is a country with all kinds of people, culture, food practices, etc. which are all prepared from the same products but the recipe（食谱）resulted finally is certainly named differently. However still the Baby Food Recipes are the same throughout the country, often all follow Healthy Food Practices. Healthy food for kids can either be homemade or a product suggested by doctors.

The world speaks more about the Indian baby food, since in the old days they used to feed the kid with the homemade foods, which are highly nutritious and can improve the baby development, making it grow more robust. The food prepared at home is easily digestible by the baby, which never has bad effect on the digestive system or causes related problems. A good mother care always starts with the best food practices, which can really make the kid grow healthier and safer. A better feed can make the kid sleep calmly.

Baby foods, like the greens, fruits, eggs and meat are very good for kids. The foods have all the proteins and vitamins that are very important for the kid to grow strong. But the question is how much food can really be fed to a kid at a time? That may either matter with the culture or the physical ability of the kid. .You can feed kids the products like the Nestle Cerelac, which is more easily digestible by the baby.

Today baby food will be inherited（继承）by the next coming generations, so it’s always safe to advise the coming generations to stay far from the junk foods and foods that are short of nutrition. As the Indian culture and the baby food practices are great, they never ruin their traditional culture of what Indians inherited.