Eat less salt can reduce the loss of body calcium

Salt is an indispensable condiment of life. For many Chinese, the dish can be no sauce, no MSG, no salt, but this can not be. However, these appear to "non-salt does not light", the quietly endanger people's health. October 8 this year is the tenth of China's "National Hypertension Day", experts have called for, should the World Health Organization recommends that the amount of salt per person per day will be controlled at 5 grams. October 16, the United States "better diet" magazine columnist Dr. Jogo author, has provided several good ideas salt restriction.

Eat less salt calcium equivalent

"China is a country of a high-salt diet, with salt in the world." The Ministry of Health Beijing Hospital, deputy director of nutrition dietitian told Lee "Life Times" reporter, referring to salt, people only thought of the past, the question of taste, but no and disease linked. China has 160 million patients with hypertension, lead to high blood pressure is too much salt-prone one of the important reasons. World Health Organization recommendation, healthy adults daily intake of salt should not be more than 5 grams, including through various channels (soy sauce, pickled vegetables, spices such as monosodium glutamate) the amount of salt intake.

A few days ago, British scientists also found that salt intake more calcium in urine volume from the more worse is the absorption of calcium. That is to say, eat less salt is equivalent to calcium. They pointed out that the calcium salt is less cost-effective method, but also the most useful way to health.

Using cap to limit salt

Guang'an Men Hospital of China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, director of nutrition diet Wang said that the Chinese people a long time and more salt to taste become paralysis, resulting in the amount of salt getting farther and farther away from the health index.

Perturbation on the World Health Organization's recommended limit salt 5 grams, even though it seems not realistic short-term, but we should be close to the awareness of health indicators. Slowly adjust the taste paralysis, taste sensitivity can be increased gradually.