Salt is an essential condiment in cooking in our daily life. With the enhancement of people's health awareness, many people know that eating too much salt is bad for health, such as calcium loss, kidney health and blood pressure. For the sake of health, low-salt diet has become a popular concept, but is it true that the less salt you eat, the healthier you are? What happened to those who insisted on a low-salt diet for a long time?
What are the benefits of blindly eating less salt to the body? The lower the salt, the healthier it is. Eating less salt is actually eating less sodium. Although eating too much salt will aggravate the stress of the body and is not good for blood pressure, sodium is also an essential trace element and participates in many physiological functions of the body. It's right to eat less salt, but the lower you eat, the better.
If you stick to a low-salt diet for a long time, you are likely to suffer the following adverse effects:
If your blood pressure level is normal, but you eat a low-salt diet for a long time, it is easy to have low blood pressure. Because of the maintenance of blood pressure level in the body, sodium ions must be involved. If sodium ion is lacking for a long time, blood pressure is very easy to decrease. Of course, for people with hypertension, effective low salt is conducive to lowering blood pressure, but attention should also be paid to the degree, not to say that the more salt you eat, the more stable your blood pressure will be.
It may also affect normal blood sugar levels. Rich sodium in the body is beneficial to keep the osmotic concentration of blood normal. Eating less salt blindly and lacking too much sodium ion are likely to affect the normal metabolism of sugar water and even affect the function of pancreas. Therefore, glucose water cannot be used immediately and deposited in the body, and the blood sugar level may continue to fluctuate.
According to the "Dietary Guidelines for China Residents", adults should consume less than 6 grams of salt every day, which is equivalent to as much as a beer bottle cap. If the blood pressure level is already very high, it is necessary to reduce the daily salt intake as much as possible, and it is appropriate to control it within 3-4 grams.
I remind you that eating less salt is incomplete, that is, cooking with less salt. Even if there is no salt in cooking, it doesn't mean there is no salt. You must know that many ingredients still contain hidden salt! For example, other condiments, such as douban net, fermented bean curd, and processed meat products such as sausages, bacon and pickles, all contain a lot of salt, so people usually eat less.
In addition, we also need to remind everyone that while eating less salt effectively, we also need to pay attention to the proper way. If you eat too salty before, suddenly reducing the supply of salt to the minimum or not eating salt directly is not good for your health, which will open the repayment system for your health, but the concentration of some ester chemicals in blood night is very easy to rise. Add and subtract in sequence, and slowly reduce salt is the accurate method.
Generally speaking, it is unhealthy to eat too much salt, but the lower you eat, the better. If you insist on eating less salt, it is very likely that the above troubles will come uninvited in the long run. It is suggested that everyone should not eat more than 6 grams of salt every day. Only scientific and standardized salt is beneficial to health, and it should be from shallow to deep to avoid some hidden salt components.