As the saying goes, "illness comes from the mouth", and many diseases are "eaten" by China people! 20 19 data survey shows that the number of hypertensive patients in China is about 500 million, which is a bit scary, and nearly half of the population has blood pressure problems.
Hypertension is the most common chronic disease and the most dangerous cause of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases! Hypertension can do harm to heart, brain, kidney and other organs. Many hypertensive patients say that if you want to control blood pressure, you need to remember "less salt and less oil"! Plus taking antihypertensive drugs often, the effect will be better. From a small fever to a big cancer, when I went to the hospital to see a doctor, the most common sentence I heard from doctors was "light diet, less oil and less salt". In fact, patients with hypertension eat less salt and lower blood pressure very little.
If you eat more or less salt every day, your body can control the salt in a balanced state. However, a large number of studies show that the "culprit" of hypertension is sugar, fine carbohydrates and sodium salts, which are important causes of obesity and hypertension. When the body ingests more sugar, it will increase insulin in the body, make the body store more sodium (salt), and only raise blood pressure. Sodium salt mainly refers to the high content of sodium, and people who eat this salt often have higher blood pressure!
Some foods in life are not salty, but the amount of sodium is amazing!
Toast and bread: These seem to be desserts. The sodium content in a piece of toast is about 500 mg per gram. After applying some butter or other condiments, the sodium content may be higher.
Candied fruit: If you look carefully at the ingredient list on the package, you will know that it contains not only sugar but also a lot of sodium.
Instant noodles: In order to make noodles more elastic, each100g of bread contains more than 500 mg of sodium. Therefore, patients with hypertension eat this kind of food depending on the ingredient list.
So how to lower blood pressure?
1, weight control. Eat less and exercise more, and excrete excess sodium in the body in time. When you lose weight, you will find that your blood pressure will gradually stabilize.
2, pay attention to diet. Reduce the intake of fine carbohydrates. Don't always think that carbohydrate foods are not easy to gain weight. Pasta and rice contain a lot of sugar, which will stimulate the secretion of insulin and accelerate the rise of blood sugar and blood pressure. You can eat more foods rich in potassium to maintain the balance of potassium and sodium in your body.
3. Reduce stress and stay optimistic. Too much pressure, bad mentality and many negative emotions can easily lead to an increase in blood pressure.