Low salt has become a new trend of health! If you eat too much, the two organs of the body will be the first to suffer

Nowadays, with the rise of health awareness, "sugar free" has become a popular lifestyle.

However, compared with the concept of low oil and low sugar, salt reduction, which is one of the "three reductions", is lagging far behind.

The report shows that China is one of the countries with the highest salt intake in the world. Over the past 40 years, the average daily salt intake of adults has been more than 10 grams, which is far more than twice the recommended amount.

At the same time, the salt intake of Chinese children aged 3-6 has reached the highest value (5g per day) recommended by the World Health Organization (who) for adults.

Eating more salt is mainly because Chinese people pursue heavy taste.

When it comes to food during the epidemic, the most explosive food. I think it's River Snails Rice Noodle. The strong taste of salty, fragrant, fishy and spicy makes many people can not stop.

And spicy strips, stinky tofu, boneless chicken feet and other online snacks have undoubtedly become the target of Chinese snack consumption. This kind of snack belongs to the characteristics of heavy taste.

Salt is the most important ingredient to make heavy taste food. These excessive intake will undoubtedly increase the burden of kidney, and also lead to a series of related diseases.

Excessive salt, the biggest damage or kidney and high blood pressure

In recent years, kidney disease and hypertension are very common, and gradually show an upward trend, and gradually tend to younger.

There are many causes of hypertension, including high salt diet.

Salt is a kind of seasoning in life, and it is also a main element that the human body should take in every day. It is indispensable in daily life, but too much salt will cause certain damage to the body, such as kidney disease and high blood pressure are caused by high salt diet.

What kind of effect does excessive salt have on kidney and blood pressure?

First, Causes blood pressure to rise

Because the main element of salt is sodium ion, which is one of the main positive ions in extracellular fluid. It can maintain the balance of water, acid and alkali in the body, and also has a certain role in the absorption and metabolism of carbohydrate.

When using too much salt, it means that the intake of sodium ions in the body is too much, which will lead to the hyperactivity of platelet function and produce the symptoms of coagulation, which will block the blood vessels and lead to the increase of blood pressure.

In addition, there may be swelling of the human body.

Second, Effect on kidney

1. Aggravating proteinuria

If you use too much salt, then in the process of excretion will make proteinuria increase, this situation is very bad for health.

Because the symptoms of proteinuria will become more obvious due to the increase in the amount of salt, and proteinuria can also affect renal function, so often excessive salt may have a greater impact on the kidney.

2. Aggravating renal osteopathy

When eating too much salt affects the kidney function, it may also cause bone disease attack. This situation is mainly due to the main material of bone is calcium and phosphorus, and calcium and phosphorus metabolism and renal function has a certain relationship.

When the renal function is affected, the metabolism of these substances will also be disordered, which will affect the health of bones, the symptoms of osteoporosis, and even the formation of renal bone disease.

3. Formation of kidney stones

When excessive salt intake in the body, it will damage the environment in the body, in addition to leading to the loss of some essential substances in the body, but also affect the reabsorption function.

Because the increase of urinary calcium, usually with the intake of salt and constantly increased, there is a part of calcium ions will not be discharged with the urine, will be a large number of accumulation in the kidney, which may lead to the occurrence of kidney stones.

Kidney stones caused by high salt are very common, and the development of such stones will be very rapid.

4. Lead to renal hypertension

The so-called renal hypertension is hypertension caused by abnormal renal function.

This situation is mainly due to the fact that after a large amount of sodium ion in the body is supplemented, it has to be metabolized in the kidney. In the long run, it will aggravate the burden on the kidney and make the renal function abnormal.

Water in the body can not be timely discharged from the body, leading to high sodium ions in the body, causing hypertension.

For normal people, if the renal function is better, blood pressure can be controlled smoothly, but renal disease will cause renal hypertension.

If the intake of salt is too large, the mucus viscosity of the stomach will be reduced, so the protective effect on the gastric wall will be reduced accordingly.

At this time, some harmful factors in the food are very easy to act on the stomach wall, leading to a variety of stomach diseases. According to the relevant investigation, if you often eat high salt food, you may suffer from gastric cancer.

Is there anything like "sugar substitute" to replace salt?

In fact, there are few substitutes for salt at present. At present, potassium chloride will be used to replace sodium chloride in the food industry, which is called low sodium salt in the market.

But this salt contains potassium, so there will be some light bitter taste, so not everyone can get used to it.

Compared with salt substitute, low salt food and low salt diet should be respected in essence. Some high salt food in daily life should be gradually reduced, gradually decreased, and the taste should be adjusted.

Therefore, for heavy-tasting foods, it is better to eat less!