Can hypertensive patients eat salt? About these dietary misunderstandings of high blood pressure, you may wish to understand

In recent years, high blood pressure has entered an outbreak period, and it has shown a trend of gradually younger people. As a result, many people associate high blood pressure with economic growth, and think that high blood pressure is a typical "disease of wealth".

　　After being diagnosed with high blood pressure, you should avoid food and stay away from all high-nutrient foods, even meat, eggs and other ingredients.

　　First of all, the appearance of high blood pressure is indeed closely related to diet, but this is not the only factor in the onset of high blood pressure. The clinical definition of primary hypertension is the unexplained increase in blood pressure. Its appearance involves many aspects, including age growth, genetics, mental factors, medication and so on.

　　Therefore, simply saying that high blood pressure is caused by dietary factors is obviously not stable in clinical practice. However, in order to stabilize blood pressure and reduce the risk of later hypertension complications, dietary adjustments are indeed required after diagnosis of hypertension. However, this does not mean that everyone should say goodbye to a certain food, fasting and excessive dieting.

　　It's time for you to understand the following cognitive misconceptions about high blood pressure diets:

1. In terms of salt

　　In fact, there is indeed a certain relationship between high blood pressure and salt, but this does not refer to the salty taste itself, but the "sodium ions" in the salt. Excessive intake of sodium for a long time, exceeding the upper limit of renal metabolism, will lead to water and sodium retention and increased blood volume, which not only increases the blood pumping burden of the heart, but also increases blood pressure .

　　Therefore, patients with high blood pressure should indeed limit their sodium intake, such as salt, condiments, preserved foods, and processed meats . However, eating less does not mean not eating. In fact, sodium ions also have a certain utilization value for the human body, so patients also need to add a small amount of salt when cooking;

　　2. Eggs

　　There is controversy about eggs, mainly in the cholesterol contained in eggs. You know, high blood pressure itself is easy to cause atherosclerosis, which is closely related to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

　　Therefore, the patient believes that the cholesterol content in eggs is high, and eating eggs will only accelerate the development of arteriosclerosis . But in fact, 4/5 of cholesterol is metabolized in the body, and only about 1/5 needs to be supplemented from food .

　　Moreover, the absorption rate of cholesterol is only about 30% , and as the cholesterol content of food increases, the absorption rate will decrease. The daily cholesterol required by the human body is about 200mg, which is about 3-4 eggs , so hypertensive patients can also eat eggs, and it will not affect blood lipids;

　　3, meat

　　Everyone only sees the fat contained in meat, but ignores other nutrients contained in meat, including protein, vitamins, iron and so on. Meat can provide human beings with sufficient nutrients. Long-term vegetarian diets may cause malnutrition, fatty liver, anemia and other problems .

　　Therefore, hypertensive patients can also eat meat, but they pay attention to the choice of meat. Patients should choose poultry, seafood, fish and other ingredients , which can supplement nutrition and will not cause excessive fat intake. .

　　In a word, hypertensive patients can eat eggs, eat salt, and eat meat. Because anyone needs a balanced nutritional intake in order to meet the needs of all parts of the body to function properly.

　　However, patients also need to control the calorie intake of three meals, and maintain a light diet on this basis to assist in lowering blood pressure.