Why are there more and more people with hypertension? Expert: Eat too much of this type of food, try to change it

Hypertension is one of the most common chronic diseases. Every October 8th is the "National Hypertension Day"!

Statistics show that there are more than 1.4 billion hypertensive patients in the world, and there are about 300 million hypertensive patients in China! What kind of concept is this? On average, one out of every four Chinese people is hypertensive. Moreover, the prevalence of hypertension data is refreshed every year, showing a continuous upward trend.

Hypertension is not only a disease limited to middle-aged and elderly people. In fact, while the number of people with hypertension is increasing, it also shows a younger tense. Many young and middle-aged people are diagnosed with high blood pressure at a young age. blood pressure. This disease is clinically divided into two types, namely primary and secondary, and most patients with hypertension belong to primary hypertension.

The onset of essential hypertension is not only related to congenital genetic genes, but also the acquired eating habits are also the culprits.

Many people believe that high blood pressure can only be caused by eating a lot of greasy and high-calorie foods. However, from the clinical research for many years, the dietary factor that really promotes hypertension is: high-salt diet!

Chinese people have an excessive preference for high-salt diets, which not only include Chinese-style salted fish, bacon, sausages and sauerkraut. Even when cooking, in order to improve the taste of the dishes, a lot of salt will be added, and at the same time Various salt-containing condiments, such as oyster sauce, soy sauce, and soybean paste, are typical representatives of high salt!

The World Health Organization once suggested that the daily intake of salt for adults should be less than 6 grams, but from the perspective of Chinese drinking habits, the daily intake of salt is far worse than 6 grams, even reaching ten. How many grams!

The reason why high salt content will become the murderer of high blood pressure is not the "salty", but the composition of table salt. First of all, everyone should understand a change in the operation of the body: balance! The human body's physiological functions, tissues and organs, cells and molecules are all in a state of dynamic equilibrium. The main component of table salt is sodium chloride. After entering the body, it will be quickly decomposed into chloride ions and sodium ions;

Both chloride and sodium ions exist in extracellular fluid to maintain the balance of extracellular fluid osmotic pressure. However, when the sodium ion intake exceeds the standard, due to the drastic change in osmotic pressure, extracellular fluid will increase, which will lead to water and sodium retention, increased blood volume and other problems, which will directly lead to the return of blood volume and ventricular filling volume. increase, resulting in increased blood pressure;

At the same time, high salt intake will also activate the sympathetic nerves and hypothalamus in the body, stimulate the operation of the renin, angiotensin and aldosterone systems, resulting in severe vasoconstriction, thereby inducing hypertension!

In our country, the incidence of hypertension in northerners is significantly higher than that in southerners, which is directly related to the heavy-taste eating habits of northerners. Therefore, in order to maintain a stable blood pressure and a healthy body, science suggests that everyone should maintain a light diet. The so-called light is not to completely cut off the meat, but to try to keep the original taste of the food and reduce the addition of salt and condiments;

Especially for patients with high blood pressure, salt intake should be strictly limited. At the same time, you should take antihypertensive drugs as recommended by your doctor and have your blood pressure measured regularly. If it is found that after taking medication and adjusting life, the blood pressure still does not decrease, but there is a trend of continuous increase, and you should seek medical attention immediately for drug adjustment until the blood pressure is controlled within a stable range.