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There are about 100 million hypertensive patients in China. We are facing a severe prevention and treatment situation, and poor control of hypertension will lead to an increase in the incidence and mortality of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and the cost of hypertension itself and its complications will also cause a heavy burden to families and society. In order to let the public understand the dangers of hypertension, it is necessary to promote health from all walks of life, and at the same time tell the public some easy-to-implement hypertension prevention and control methods.

In 2007, the World Hypertension Federation set the slogan of Hypertension Day "Healthy Diet, Healthy Blood Pressure", which is to hope that people all over the world can achieve healthy blood pressure or reasonable control of blood pressure through scientific management of diet.

For the Chinese population, the "high fat, high sugar, high salt" dietary pattern should be limited, which together constitute the dietary factors for high blood pressure, and the long-term high salt intake is one of the main causes of high blood pressure.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently proposed to change the daily salt intake from 6 grams to 5 grams per person. However, the survey shows that the average daily salt intake per person in northern China is 15 18 grams, and the average daily salt intake per person in southern China is about 10 grams. In this way, the actual salt intake of Chinese residents has greatly exceeded the recommended standard of the World Health Organization.

Since poor eating habits are difficult to correct, it is unrealistic to get all people to meet the salt limit immediately. As a result, the Chinese Hypertension Alliance proposed step-by-step salt restriction measures.

1.Reduce your intake of preserved foods such as sauces, pickles, salted meats, etc.

2.Eat less foods that are high in suction, such as ham sausages with nitrites, pasta and pastries with baking soda.

3.Use other flavors to make up for the taste needs after salt restriction, such as increasing the use of vinegar, tomato paste, etc.

4.People with high salt intake can reduce their regular salt intake by half first, and do not need to immediately limit salt to 5 grams per person per day. For example, if a person estimates that his daily salt intake is about 18 grams, he should first reduce his salt intake to 12 grams per day in order to gradually transition to normal salt intake.

Salt restriction should start with the doll. If he consumes a high-salt diet from childhood, his taste buds will also become accustomed to the high-salt diet, causing him to continue to prefer a high-salt diet as an adult.

Salt restriction is not just a personal matter, and academic institutions have an obligation to advocate and guide people to adopt a low-salt diet. At present, the China Hypertension Alliance, together with relevant institutions, will distribute "salt restriction spoons" to families in some parts of the country in the next few years to help them master the daily salt consumption.

Of course, the salt restriction cannot be overkill. The Chinese Hypertension Alliance recommends that residents should not consume less than 3 grams of salt per person per day. Because sodium ions in table salt are important substances for maintaining normal physiological metabolism, too low sodium will also cause physiological metabolism disorders.

Salt restriction is only one of the measures to control blood pressure, and compared with restricting high-fat and high-sugar diets, the effect of salt restriction is more intuitive and easier to operate, which is the beginning of a healthy diet for Chinese people!