People in China who used a special spoon that measures exactly 2 grams of salt while cooking for three years ended up excreting less salt in their urine than those who didn’t use it—meaning the spoon helped them eat less salt.

In China, people who used a special spoon that measures exactly 2 grams of salt ended up eating less salt than those who switched to low-salt seasoning—suggesting that changing how you cook might work better than just swapping out your salt.

In China, people who cook with a lot of salt and actually use a special spoon to measure less salt ended up excreting much less salt in their urine than people who didn’t use the spoon — showing that using the tool correctly makes it work better.

If you eat a lot of salt—like 18 grams a day for 10 days—your body will flush out more salt in your urine and also have a bit more salt in your blood, which proves you actually ate the salty food they gave you.

When people who don’t get high blood pressure from salt eat more or less salt, their kidneys adjust how much salt they pee out—no matter if they’re male or female.

If you eat a lot of salt—like 18 grams a day for 10 days—your body will pee out more salt and your blood will have a bit more salt too, which proves your body is responding as expected to the extra salt.