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Check the hazards of eating too much salt

Salt is the condiment in our daily life. Without salt, our food will lose its flavor and may suffer from big neck disease. But too much salt is not good for your health. Now let's take a look at the hazards of eating too much salt?

1、 Too much salt can cause cancer

Excessive salt intake increases the risk of high blood pressure, myocardial infarction and cancer. Medical experts suggest that every city should reduce the salt consumption from 20 grams to 10 grams or even 5 grams per day, so as to reduce the incidence rate of some diseases. Experts say that nearly 50% of the middle-aged and elderly people's daily salt intake exceeds the threshold of 6 grams proposed by the World Health Organization.

2、 Too much salt is easy to swell

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that body swelling is a phenomenon that occurs when excess water is not excreted and accumulated in the body. Some people try to lose weight by perspiration or diuresis, but in fact, it is also temporary elimination of edema, and it is difficult to play a fundamental role in reducing fat. If you want to lose weight, you'd better control your diet, plus physical exercise, and eat less salt.

3、 Sudden sleep death

Sudden sleep death (SDD) has been rampant in Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and the Philippines in recent years, killing more than 5000 people in the past 16 years. Some experts suspect that the disease may be related to salty diet. An investigation in the 1950s found that more than 50% of the people who died of this disease had acute pancreatitis, and the cause of pancreatitis may be due to the salty Philippine food. However, he said that at present, experts have failed to establish the causal relationship.

4、 Too much salt can hurt the kidney

Excessive salt consumption can easily lead to increased blood volume, increased lateral pressure on the vascular wall, increased blood pressure and vascular sclerosis. In addition, eating too much salt makes people feel thirsty and need to drink a lot of water to relieve it. Long term intake of a lot of salt will lead to body swelling and increase the burden on the kidneys.

5、 Eat too much salt, easy to spot

Studies have confirmed that eating too much salt on the skin is more likely to grow freckles, in addition to making the face black and yellow, it may also lead to cheek freckles. If you eat animal fat and protein at the same time, it will affect the normal metabolism of the liver and make freckles more prominent.