The link between obesity and high blood pressure and the wrongful conviction of the hamburger: high salt content is the real culprit.

Linkage between obesity and hypertension in combined cases

For a long time, the medical community has believed that obesity and hypertension are causally related.

In fact, many obese people do not have high blood pressure, while many thin people have high blood pressure. Therefore, simply linking obesity and high blood pressure is logically illogical and there must be other plausible causes.

Precise scientific theories should not be maintained by probability.

Of course, when medical research only knows the correlation between phenomena but not the underlying pathogenesis, it can only offer vague suggestions.

Similar examples where the pathogenesis remains unclear include the link between obesity and diabetes.

The medical community only knows that obesity can easily lead to diabetes, but it cannot explain why some obese people develop diabetes while others remain healthy throughout their lives.

Because the true culprit behind diabetes is still unknown in modern medicine.

The link between obesity and high blood pressure is merely a statistical correlation. The real culprit behind high blood pressure is a high-salt diet.

Although obese, blood pressure can be normal if the diet is low in salt.

Even if you are thin, you can still develop high blood pressure if your diet is high in salt.

The medical community has long established the relationship between high salt intake and high blood pressure, but the liability for accidents caused by high salt intake is assigned too lightly, leading to conclusions such as the need for lifelong medication.

In my opinion, obesity plays only a secondary role in hypertension. Numerically speaking, the contribution rate of obesity to hypertension is estimated to be only 10%, and the resulting deviation in blood pressure is generally not enough to warrant treatment.

High salt intake contributes more than 70% to hypertension, and can even be said to play a decisive role.

While obesity has many drawbacks, it is unfair to consider it a major contributor to high blood pressure.

Some research reports indicate that losing 1 kilogram can lower blood pressure by 1 mmHg, and this conclusion is probably correct. However, what really lowers blood pressure is not the weight loss itself, but rather the reduced food intake that accompanies weight loss and the reduction in sodium levels caused by sweating during exercise.

When controlling our salt intake, we often focus on the saltiness of the dishes and try to eat less salt, but we easily overlook the amount of food we eat. That is, the amount of salt we consume per meal or per day is determined by both the saltiness of the dishes and the amount of food we eat.

Even if you don't change your taste preferences while dieting, as long as you eat less food and dishes, you are actually consuming less salt, which will lower your blood pressure.

Some people also said that their blood pressure did rise during the process of gaining weight.

Similarly, the increased food intake during the process of gaining weight, even if the taste remains the same, leads to an increase in salt intake, which in turn raises blood pressure.

Generally speaking, "gaining weight from alcohol and meat" can easily lead to excessive salt intake, which can affect blood pressure, while "gaining weight from fruit alone" has little impact on blood pressure.

Obesity is primarily a major contributing factor to high blood pressure; its effect on blood pressure is achieved through excessive salt intake.

When we criticize the poor water seal design of the floor drains in the kitchen and bathroom, which often causes foul odors due to the water drying up, we lift the drain cover and find that the problem is actually caused by strands of hair stuck to the side of the drain.

It's not a design flaw in the drain, but rather a problem with inadequate routine maintenance.

The medical community has yet to discover the "thin thread" that connects obesity and diabetes.

The "hamburger" case, one of the main culprits in wrongful convictions.

In recent years, the food industry in Europe and America has repeatedly regarded "hamburgers" as unhealthy junk food, believing that the fried chicken or fried meat pieces inside are made with hydrogenated oil in order to improve the taste. The trans fatty acids contained in hydrogenated oil are said to be the main culprit for obesity and health hazards.

I find this argument rather far-fetched. If we were to use modern analytical and testing methods to fabricate side effects for all foods that have been consumed in the past, it would be enough to make us reject most traditional foods.

The test results show that trans fatty acids are bad for health, which is certainly believable. However, attributing the rise in obesity rates in Western populations to eating foods containing trans fatty acids, such as hamburgers, is not necessarily the case.

Both unbalanced diets and excessive consumption of certain foods can be harmful. There is also a saying in the medical community that eating rice regularly can easily lead to stomach problems.

In many cases, the problem is not the harmfulness of the ingredients; as long as it is consumed in moderation, it generally will not cause any major problems.

However, a high-energy, quick and convenient food can still be very harmful if it easily leads to overeating.

Human eating is a multi-sensory process. Concentrated, refined, and delicious high-energy foods can easily deceive our senses. Because these foods often appear to be in small quantities, we may misjudge the amount we are eating and become less vigilant, thinking that we have not eaten much.

It's just a few hamburgers, it doesn't seem like much in your hand, and you'll finish them in no time. But you're ignoring the fact that, in terms of energy, one or one and a half hamburgers per meal is enough to replenish your energy. Isn't that a bad thing?

Hamburgers are high-energy, convenient foods that are easy to overeat, which is the real reason why eating hamburgers can easily lead to obesity.

Since entering the body control stage, I have generally avoided eating at banquets, and sometimes even irrationally refused to do so.

This is done partly to avoid the salt and baking soda in restaurant dishes, and partly because the atmosphere of dining at a table can easily lead to overeating.

With so many different kinds of food, it's easy to eat a little here and a little there without thinking, and you might think you're not eating much, but it's actually hard to avoid overeating.

Since one is forced by the environment to control one's greedy appetite and find it difficult to maintain a clean lifestyle, one can only selectively reject the environment to avoid doing something "unjust and immoral" to one's body.

Attributing obesity to a particular "bad ingredient" in a food, such as high sugar content, is misleading and absurd, like blaming the toilet for something you don't understand.

Similarly, some researchers have criticized businesses for labeling food as "organic," arguing that this encourages people to overeat these foods and increases obesity rates.

In my opinion, inappropriate attribution can easily overlook reminding people to improve their bad eating habits, and it can also give overweight people who are unwilling to improve their habits an excuse to shirk responsibility: "Look, it's not that I became fat because I was greedy and ate whatever I wanted, but because of the harmful substances in those foods."

We can criticize a food for being easy to overeat, but we have to put those foods in our mouths ourselves.

Organic food is defined relative to foods containing hormones or pesticide residues; it does not imply that you can eat too much of it. If you become obese, the responsibility for it is entirely your own.

Hamburgers should be safe to eat, but you should be mindful of their calorie content and not eat them every day or at every meal.

Be wary of the "femme fatale" effect when it comes to delicious and convenient foods.