If you eat too much of this kind of food, your skin will really get worse (not milk tea desserts)

Hot pot, sausages, bacon, salted duck, and pickled vegetables. Let’s just say, who isn’t eating these every day this month!

Unfortunately, these dishes have one thing in common:

Too much salt!

Without salt, there is no taste. However, you may not know that salt can also secretly harm your skin . The salt you eat every day,

How does it damage the skin?

The main component of salt is "sodium chloride", which is an essential nutrient for the human body.
However, if you eat too much salt, your skin will also store excess sodium!
These sodiums hiding in the skin not only take away moisture, but also increase skin inflammation and destroy the skin's original "repair ability".

Dermal fibroblasts are important mediators of skin sodium storage

The researchers conducted an experiment using mice:

One group of mice was fed a normal-salt diet , and the other group was fed a high-salt diet .

After five weeks of this, the researchers used drugs to induce inflammation in the mice's back skin and then observed their skin condition and healing:

References [1] Effects of a high-salt diet on skin inflammation in IMQ-treated and control mice

Tests found that mice that maintained a high-salt diet had more sodium in their skin, more severe skin inflammation, decreased anti-inflammatory ability, and more difficult wound healing.

In other words, if your skin already has inflammation, such as breakouts, rashes, wounds, etc. , eating too much salt may make it worse!

How much salt is considered excessive?

Many people know that eating too much salt is bad for you, but they still exceed the limit without realizing it.

The 2022 Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents recommends that daily salt intake should be ≤ 5 grams (containing 2000 mg of sodium and 3000 mg of chlorine). In 2015, the average Chinese person consumed 9.3 grams of salt per day, which is almost doubled.

One reason is that the condiments we love to use, such as soy sauce, bean paste, oyster sauce, etc., all contain salt, and you may not know that -

As you age, your sense of taste will gradually deteriorate!

Have you noticed that the dishes cooked by your parents are becoming saltier this Spring Festival? When the tongue becomes dull, the elderly will unconsciously add too much seasoning for a better taste, which can easily lead to excessive sodium intake.

If you want to eat less salt, you can also buy a salt control spoon like this. For example, half a pound of salted duck contains 19.8g of salt, and 100g of potato chips contains 1.29g of salt. When cooking, it is easy to exceed the limit if your hands shake.

In addition to worsening skin, what is even more worrying is the "bad things" that salt does to various organs: eating too much salt will increase the risk of high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, gastric cancer, obesity, osteoporosis, and kidney disease .

When you see this, don’t forget to forward this to your parents: Salt may “pickle” your internal organs, so for the sake of your health, you really need to eat less salt!

References:

【1】Pajtók C, Veres-Székely A, Agócs R, Szebeni B, Dobosy P, Németh I, Veréb Z, Kemény L, Szabó AJ, Vannay Á, Tulassay T, Pap D. High salt diet impairs dermal tissue remodeling in a mouse model of IMQ induced dermatitis. PLoS One. 2021 Nov 1;16(11):e0258502. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258502. PMID: 34723976; PMCID: PMC8559960.

【2】Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents 2022