Patients with diabetes are prone to cause a cold salty food
Author: Anonymous Source: Diabetes Network Hits: 528 Update Time :2009-5-13
Hypertension induced by high salt diet is an important factor, which has long been a consensus. The new discoveries of modern medical research, excessive intake of high salt diet can lead to reduced secretion of saliva, is conducive to a variety of bacteria and viruses in the presence of upper respiratory tract, and because the sodium salt has a high permeability, can affect oral and pharyngeal epithelial cells in defense capability. When the immune system decreases, the flu virus will take advantage of other pathogenic microorganisms. Various reasons, resulting in salty diet are more likely to get colds, but also may induce gastritis, increase diabetes.
For diabetics, people tend to be very careful dietary intake of sugar, to the neglect of salt intake. Salt can not only stimulate the appetite, increase food intake, but also enhance amylase activity, and promote the role of starch digestion and absorption, can cause elevated blood glucose levels exacerbated long-term excessive intake of salt, but also induced high blood pressure, acceleration increase the development of diabetic complications. Therefore, patients with diabetes need to take low-salt diet intake should be controlled at 5 grams or less (including salt seasoning.) Long-term intake of high salt foods will cause direct damage to the gastric mucosa, causing gastritis, gastric ulcer, or even stomach cancer.
"Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" in the recommended daily intake of healthy adults, the amount of salt is less than 6 grams. Daily intake of salt, there are three main sources: first, when cooking or eating soy sauce or salt; the second is for the preservation of food processing, flavoring and coloring and add the salt, widely in packaged foods and fast foods such as potato chips, shrimp crackers, biscuits, instant noodles, salt and so on, some cooked food, such as Sauce, sausage, bacon salt is 1-2 times than normal food, and some seasonings such as monosodium glutamate, tomato sauce, oyster sauce, bean sauce, tempeh, etc. are not low salt content. Third, the amount of sodium contained in the food itself, such as seaweed, tofu, shrimp, etc. have a high sodium content.
Therefore, salt restriction should first of all good "doorway." Minimize salt and cooking salt seasoning, salt restriction than using a spoon, it can also use meal salt method. When cooking or pot that is not salt or less salt, sprinkle a little light meal, so salt will not penetrate dishes, but evenly scattered on the surface. Strongly stimulated by the tongue taste buds, not only to arouse the appetite, and reducing salt intake. Appropriate to improve the taste, with sweet and sour spicy instead of salty. Try to eat at home, eat fast food, snacks and packaged foods, and more entertaining dinner or a heavier taste, should eat more fruits and vegetables twice a week to ensure that sweating exercise, because sweating can schedule salt.
