Your fingers become thicker, indicating that the salt has exceeded the standard! Avoid high blood pressure from coming to the door, it's time to control the amount
Salt is known as the first of all flavors, and it is an indispensable seasoning in cooking. Food without salt can only be tasteless.
And salt is not only a seasoning, but also a necessary substance for the human body, which is conducive to maintaining the balance of the human body, so people are inseparable from salt.
In order to lose weight, many people only eat boiled vegetables without salt, which is actually very unfavorable to the internal environment of the human body, which may cause symptoms such as fatigue and nervous disorders.
But in fact, for most people today, the worry is not that the intake of salt is too low, but too high.
So, what are the symptoms of eating too much salt?
Excessive salt intake can lead to a variety of problems such as increased blood pressure and kidney abnormalities, which is extremely threatening to health. At this point, the body tends to give some warning signs, such as thickened fingers.
When you stretch out your fingers and find that your fingers are much thicker than before, or even edema, it means that you have eaten too much salt.
Too much salt enters the human body, and the sodium content in the human body will also exceed the standard at the same time, and the human body cannot quickly excrete excess sodium, and the sodium can only flow into the extracellular fluid, resulting in the retention of water in the cells and causing edema of the limbs. The phenomenon.
Fingers are the end of blood circulation. Compared with other parts, sodium is more likely to accumulate, so once the intake of salt exceeds the standard, the symptoms of edema will first appear in the fingers.
Since too much salt poses a threat to health, how to reduce salt intake and protect health?
- Eat less high-salt foods: Trying to avoid eating foods with high salt content is the easiest way to reduce salt intake.
Foods such as barbecue, instant noodles, frying, hot pot, pickled vegetables, preserved eggs, etc., have added too much salt in the process of making, and no matter who they are, it is better to eat less.
- Drink less vegetable soup: Many people like to drink vegetable soup or soak rice in soup when they eat to relieve the situation that the rice is too dry and difficult to swallow.
But in fact, the salt content in vegetable soup is higher than the content of vegetables in most cases. People who often drink vegetable soup are very likely to have excessive salt in their bodies, so it is better to drink as little as possible.
- Control the amount of salt in cooking: three meals a day, each meal is unavoidable, the amount of salt must be controlled within a reasonable range when cooking at home, and the diet should be light to reduce the risk of excessive salt.
In addition to adding less salt, you should also put less seasonings such as chicken essence and soy sauce. The content of sodium in these seasonings is not low, and eating too much can easily lead to excessive salt in the body.
- Eat more vegetables and fruits: Vegetables and fruits can promote the excretion of sodium in the body, especially vegetables and fruits rich in potassium, such as bean sprouts, tomatoes, yams, corn, bananas, grapes, etc.
Eating more of these foods properly can promote the excretion of sodium and reduce the damage to the human body.
To sum up, when the human body's salt content exceeds the standard, the fingers are prone to edema. If you want to control the intake of salt, you should try to eat less high-salt food, less vegetable soup, and more vegetables and fruits.
Salt is unavoidable in life, and now many people have to eat out. The salt in the human body is very easy to exceed the standard, which induces various problems.
Therefore, for the sake of health, it is very important to control the intake of salt. You must know that eating less and eating more is not good for your health.