Diabetic patients are prone to cardiovascular disease, and excessive salt consumption adds to the problem. The main component of salt is sodium chloride, which is an important component of the human body, it can not be synthesized in the body, nor can it disappear in the metabolism, but every day there is a quantitative by urine, sweat, hair, nails, skin, mucous membranes and other discharges, so it must be supplemented by diet. The World Health Organization recommends that each adult should consume 6 grams of salt per day. At present, the average daily salt intake of Chinese residents is 12-14 grams, not including other salt intake (such as drinking light salt water in the morning, fashionable fresh and salty snacks, fermented foods with alkali, delicious salty dishes, etc.). Diabetic patients eat less, metabolic disorders, more cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications, more than normal people should be less salt. How to reduce the intake of salt? 1, can eat raw food as much as possible, do not add salt or less salt, pay attention to the original juice and taste; 2, when cooking dishes, first do not put salt, and so the dish cooked before eating temporary salt, so that the salt in the surface of the dish, not only to reduce the amount of salt, but also to ensure a salty taste; 3, fermented foods as far as possible with baking powder, without alkali and soda; 4, do not eat or eat less salty or fresh snacks, snacks, instant noodles, soda crackers and other foods containing sodium High food, especially hypertension, cardiovascular disease and swelling patients should limit salt, potassium salt can be used to replace part of the sodium salt, not only to increase the salty taste, but also to lower blood pressure and diuretic.