Don’t let the invisible salt in your food mess with your blood pressure!

Salt promotes the metabolism of proteins and carbohydrates and the propagation of nerve impulses and muscle contraction, as well as regulating hormones and cellular consumption of oxygen, controlling urine production, thirst, and the production of fluids. However, excessive sodium intake can affect the body’s blood pressure level and even lead to hypertension. High salt intake is not only easy to induce hypertension, but also increase the risk of stroke and cardiovascular events, we pay attention to the invisible salt in food in addition to a light diet in our daily life, here together. 1, noodles Many people feel that their usual diet in the salt and not much, but the salt intake is still excessive, blood pressure can not come down, one of the reasons is to eat too much noodles. Manufacturing noodles will add the right amount of salt and alkali, so that it is resistant to cooking, but people eat noodles when eating the salty taste of the noodles, thought the noodles do not contain salt, compared with rice as a staple food people, pasta-based food is easy to unknowingly consume too much salt. 2, baking soda water or food containing baking soda Although baking soda water does not contain sodium salt, but it contains sodium bicarbonate, after entering the body and sodium chloride (sodium salt) on the body is the same. In addition, many cold noodles on the market will add baking soda to increase the elasticity, coupled with sodium is also very high in sesame sauce, sodium intake is easy to exceed the standard. 3, sports drinks sports drinks are increasingly popular among young people, however, 1 can of 600 ml of sports drinks may contain 252 mg of sodium, if not a long time to exercise or sweat more cases, it is best not to take sports drinks as water to replenish. 4, white bread It is understood that 2.5 slices of white flour containing more than 600 mg of sodium, if coated with peanut butter, jam and other flavorings, it is easy to exceed the standard. In addition, chocolate bread, pineapple buns, soufflé bread and other bread containing more cream, containing sodium is also high, in the same amount of sodium, it may be worthwhile to choose mixed grain bread containing potassium is also high, offset each other. 5, jelly Jelly low calorie, good taste, many people use jelly as a daily snack. However, the production process of jelly will add sodium-containing auxiliary materials, every 100g jelly also contains 30mg sodium, is included in high salt food. 6, pickles and pickles Many people like to eat three meals a day, add some sauce radish, squash and other side dishes to increase appetite. However, every 100 grams of sauce radish containing 17.5 grams of salt, other salted vegetables, pickles salt content is also very high, try not to eat daily. Under normal circumstances, the body’s sodium ions, potassium ions in a state of balance, blood pressure can maintain a normal state, if the sodium content is high, the balance is “broken”, blood pressure naturally rise. People can not participate in the whole process of food processing, only by taste to determine whether the salt is over the limit is not reliable, especially the following kinds of food containing “invisible salt” is easy to be ignored. If it is really difficult to reduce the intake of sodium in the daily diet, you can increase the amount of daily exercise, drink more water to discharge part of the sodium, you can also eat more foods with high potassium content, or use salt (potassium chloride), salt-free soy sauce instead of table salt.