The number of Chinese adults with diabetes is the highest in the world, with 1 in 10 people having diabetes. In addition to genetic factors and other factors, bad habits in life are an important driver of diabetes. But in addition to high sugar, there is an invisible killer, which is eating too much salt for a long time! Eat too much salt, diabetes risk increases: The study found that people who eat too much salt, the risk of getting diabetes will increase by 2 times. The explanation given by the researchers is: on the one hand, too much salt will make the body a substance called “hunger hormone” increase, which will inhibit insulin secretion, so that the body resists insulin, and directly weaken the ability of insulin to lower sugar. On the other hand, the “hunger hormone” will increase appetite, eat more, naturally easy to become fat, and diabetes often comes with obesity. In addition, salt can increase blood pressure, aggravate the damage to blood vessels, and increase the risk of diabetes. Do not eat more than 6 grams of salt per day Healthy adults should not eat more than 6 grams of salt per day per person – that is, the amount of ordinary beer bottle cap after removing the rubber cushion, flat a bottle cap. If you are over the age of 65 or have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, it is best not to exceed 5 grams per day. Of course this only counts salt, not the sodium contained in everyday snacks, soy sauce, soy sauce, etc. Therefore, salt should be put even less. How to control salt in the life of diabetics? First, match ingredients smartly. Use the flavor of the vegetables themselves to flavor, light food and peppers, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms and other ingredients cooked together, can take each other’s taste and play a mutually harmonizing role. Second, after eating the vegetables to pour the vegetable soup, which can reduce the intake of salt. Some people like to drink vegetable soup, or pour the soup into the rice soak rice to eat, stir-fry when a lot of salt are dissolved in the soup, so the salt content in the soup is the highest. Third, when cooking dishes, first do not put salt, and so the dish is cooked to be eaten before the small amount of salt directly sprinkled on the dish, so that the taste buds can be directly stimulated by the strong salt, salt can be put less. Fourth, there are some invisible salt in life such as soy sauce, sausages, pickles, snacks, etc., so we should also pay attention to control the intake of invisible salt. Do not eat or eat less salty or fresh snacks, snacks, instant noodles, soda crackers, etc. (containing a lot of sodium), especially hypertension, cardiovascular disease and swelling patients should limit salt. Fifth, the use of low-sodium salt is also a good way. The sodium in low-sodium salt is about one-third lower than the sodium in ordinary iodized salt. Therefore, the use of low sodium salt can reduce the intake of sodium chloride by 20% to 30%. In terms of taste, the salty taste of low sodium salt is similar to that of ordinary refined salt, because the amount of potassium chloride and magnesium chloride is increased in low sodium salt, and potassium chloride also has a certain salty taste, and potassium and magnesium are also very beneficial to the human body. However, patients with uremia, impaired kidney function and other kidney diseases have poor potassium excretion ability are not suitable for low sodium salt. We all know the effect of excessive salt intake on blood pressure, but we have never thought that salt is also closely related to diabetes, too much salt intake will increase the risk of diabetes, and high blood pressure is the main cause of disability and death in diabetic patients. So for the sake of your health, we urge you to slowly change your heavy tastes and eat less salt. If you are really diabetic and meet the conditions for surgery, you can still consider having diabetes surgery, and don’t wait until complications arise before you regret it.