Health - what to do 'because of the habit of eating salty and eating light
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Eating too salty
Eating too salty will make your health threatened by the risk of hypertension . The reason is that sodium will draw water from the artery wall into the bloodstream, causing arteries to narrow, while the amount of water and pressure increases. In addition to high blood pressure, this also leads to some very dangerous diseases such as kidney disease, heart attack, brain hemorrhage, stroke . These are serious life-threatening diseases.
In addition to adverse health effects, eating too salty also affects psychology, is the culprit causing stress . Excessive salt intake will increase the number of brain cells that receive hormones norepinephrine - a hormone of the nervous system. If the amount of salt in your body increases, the more hormones you produce, the more likely it is to cause anxiety, panic, and irritability.
Not only that, eating too salty also causes a lot of concerns about your beauty . This may be the cause of swelling of the face due to disorders of water metabolism, hair loss or dryness caused by metabolic disorders, appearance of freckles, brown spots on the face, dehydration causing dry, wrinkled skin .
Eat too light
Salt is an indispensable substance for body growth.Eating too little salt can cause some side effects . The inadequate amount of salt causes the internal and external osmotic pressure to lose balance, leading to the situation of water infiltrating into cells, causing brain edema. Common symptoms are fatigue, or drowsiness, which can even cause coma.
High salt intake causes high blood pressure but too little salt will lead to a drop in blood pressure, lower blood pressure . Not only that, if the lack of salt takes place in a long time, it will cause phenomena such as anorexia, depression, mental . More seriously, you may appear severe symptoms of anorexia, sadness vomiting, vomiting, tachycardia, weak pulse, muscle contraction, blurred vision, slow reflexes . This is called low sodium syndrome .
The amount of salt needed for the body
Our bodies cannot lack salt. In order to have good health, you also need to pay attention to providing the body with the necessary salt. On the advice of doctors, we should eat about 4 - 6g of salt a day. This number includes the amount of salt available in the food, so you need to consider cooking and processing the dishes.
For people with high blood pressure, we need to limit salt intake compared to people with good health. The amount of salt to apply to high blood pressure is about 2 - 4g per day.
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