Ladies and gentlemen, let’s talk about the salt intake of diabetics today. When it comes to diabetes, one tends to think first of all about controlling blood sugar, but salt intake is also essential for diabetes patients. Why? This is because excessive salt intake can have many negative effects on diabetes patients. First, high-saline diet increases blood pressure. Many diabetes patients also have high blood pressure, which is exacerbated by excessive salt intake. High blood pressure not only increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, but also causes kidney damage. For diabetics, kidneys are vulnerable to high blood sugar, which is compounded by the “hit” of high blood pressure.
Second, high salt diets affect blood sugar control. Excessive salinity increases body insulin resistance, making blood sugar more difficult to control. Insulin is an important hormone for regulating blood sugar, which increases when body sensitivity to insulin is reduced. So, controlling salt intake is important to stabilize blood sugar. So, how much salt should a diabetic take every day? In general, a daily salt intake of no more than 6 grams is recommended. It’s equivalent to so much salt in a beer bottle. How can any of your sugar friends feel so little salt? In fact, as long as we have some methods, we can control the salt intake without affecting taste.
First, reduce ingestion of processed foods. Many processed foods, such as ham, sausages, pickles, noodles, etc., contain large amounts of salt. We should try to choose fresh food and cook our own food, so we can better control salt intake.
Second, less salt in cooking. When cooking, cooking, you can use less salt or low salted spices such as vinegar, lemonade, pepper powder, etc. These spices not only increase the taste of food but also reduce salt intake.
Third, watch out for invisibility salt. In addition to the salt we can see, there are many foods that contain invisible salt, such as soy sauce, soybean bean bean sauce, chicken sperm, etc. These spices contain a certain amount of salt and are used in a controlled manner. Fourth, eat more of the potassium-rich food. Potassium can facilitate sodium ejection and has some advantages in controlling blood pressure and blood sugar. Potassium-rich food is abundant, such as bananas, potatoes, spinach, beans, etc. Diabetes patients can eat some more of these foods, as appropriate, in order to help their bodies to remove additional salt.
In short, diabetes patients need to focus on salt intake and control salt levels to better control the condition and reduce complications. Let’s move together, get used to low-salt diets, and fuel our health!
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