Pickled vegetables
Types such as pickled radishes, pickled cucumbers or pickled cabbage are not good for the liver and kidneys if eaten regularly. These foods contain a lot of salt, easily cause mold and create nitrosamine during pickling. Long-term consumption can increase the risk of esophageal and liver cancer.
In addition, high salt content also causes blood pressure to rise, causing water retention, and kidney edema. Eating moldy salted vegetables can also seriously damage liver cells.
Dips and fermented tofu
Just a small piece of fermented tofu can contain more than 1/3 of the recommended daily amount of sodium. Elderly people often have poor taste, so it is easy to use more salty dipping sauces such as fermented tofu sauce, sweet chili sauce, and soy sauce.
Consuming too much sodium increases the risk of high blood pressure, stroke, and kidney failure, especially dangerous for the elderly or people with underlying diseases.
Bone broth, meat broth
Many people believe that drinking bone broth helps supplement calcium, but in fact calcium in bones is very difficult to dissolve into water. Bone broth mainly contains fat, purines and even heavy metals.
During the long simmering process, lead accumulated in animal bones can mix into the broth, harming the kidneys of the elderly - subjects with poor metabolic ability. High purine content also increases uric acid, easily leading to kidney stones or kidney disease due to gout.
White rice porridge
White rice porridge has a very high glycemic index (GI), causing blood sugar to rise rapidly after eating. If you maintain a diet high in high GI foods for a long time, the body is prone to chronic inflammation, increasing the risk of fatty liver, kidney disease due to diabetes and in the long term can lead to kidney failure.
