Edible salt is one of the indispensable condiments in the kitchen, and because there are many types of salt on the market, many people are prone to difficulty in choosing salt.
In addition to refined salt, smoked sea salt, bamboo salt, and lemon salt, there is also a new low-sodium salt, but there are different opinions about this salt, some people think it is "life-saving salt", and some people think that it is "life-saving salt", and many people can't help but be surprised after learning the truth.
Is low-sodium salt a "life-saving salt" or a "life-saving salt"?
1. Prevent high blood pressure
For patients with high blood pressure, if you want to stabilize your blood pressure, you should eat less salt, otherwise you usually eat pickled food, which can easily lead to an increase in blood pressure.
While salt is not the main cause of elevated blood pressure, the sodium chloride contained in salt can make high blood pressure worse. Therefore, patients with high blood pressure should never eat ordinary table salt, but should use more low-sodium salt when cooking, so as to avoid rapid spikes in blood pressure.
Therefore, from this point of view, low-sodium salt is more suitable for people with high blood pressure.
2. Low sodium salt is not for everyone
The sodium content in low-sodium salt is only about 1/3 of ordinary edible salt, so it is more suitable for patients with high blood pressure, but for people without high blood pressure, as well as diabetic patients, regular consumption of low-sodium salt will lead to an increase in potassium content in the body, which will bring great pressure to the kidneys, especially for patients with kidney disease, which will not only damage kidney function but also may suffer from hyperkalemia.
For diabetic patients, try not to eat low-sodium salt, because the kidneys of such patients are relatively weak, if the sodium content of the edible salt they usually eat is low, they may develop diabetic nephropathy because of the high potassium content in the body, which is also a common complication of diabetic patients, so in order to protect the kidneys, we must stay away from low-sodium salt.
To sum up, low-sodium salt is indeed good for people who want to control blood pressure or prevent high blood pressure, so low-sodium salt is "life-saving salt" for them.
However, for non-hypertensive patients, they often put low sodium salt when cooking, which will cause great damage to the body, especially for diabetic and kidney disease patients, they must not eat low sodium salt, otherwise low sodium salt may become "life-threatening salt".
It can be seen that the same kind of edible salt, different groups of people will eat polarized results, the reason is that which type of people eat low-sodium salt, eating the right will have great benefits to health, once you eat the wrong then it may really become "life-saving salt".
Therefore, whether low-sodium salt is "life-saving salt" or "life-saving salt", you must not generalize or blindly follow the trend, the most important thing is to understand the physical condition of yourself and your family first, and then you can decide whether to eat low-sodium salt.