According to World Health Organization statistics ：The number of people with diabetes has risen from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. The global prevalence of diabetes* among adults over 18 years of age has risen from 4.7% in 1980 to 8.5% in 2014. And the trend has been rising rapidly, the number of diabetic patients has increased year by year.
In my family, one-fourth of people have diabetes or suspected diabetes, including my parents.
So I often ask them to control their intake of sugar and carbohydrates.
Before I did the relevant research about salt, salt also had a great influence on diabetes, which I didn't know at all. Searching for diabetes related entries in Google is also related to "sugar." Thus I immediately asked my parents if they knew, and my parents answered the same way as I did.
And they don't know how many amount of salt should be consumed by an adult every day.
So I immediately had the idea of doing a questionnaire about salt. The purpose of the questionnaire was to find out whether people of different age groups knew about the amount of salt they ate each day.
The total number of participants in the questionnaire was 179 (127 female and 52 male), 19-29 years people amount occupied 41.34%, the people who are 18 years old or under 18 occupied the lowest number about 1.12%.
With regard to people's daily eating habits, 35.2% people prefer salty foods, while the number of people who like to eat sweet and salty is 21.79%. This shows that people in the daily diet, the demand for salt is enormous. But everyone know what the bad effects of salt on diabetes are? The results show that:
Most people only know that sugar has an effect on diabetes, and only 21.23% person know that sugar and salt both have an effect on diabetes. So how many people know the specific amount of salt should taken each day?
39.66% of people know that adults need to ingest 5.5g-6g of salt a day, compared with 60.34% of people who are unsure and exceed the standard grams. The data is huge. When people eat too much salt, what will be happened, Google shows the result: cancer, high blood pressure and so on.
In everyday cooking, do people know exactly how much salt they put in one dish?
The results are clear that 65.92% of people don't know the exact amount of food they put in. After the question I asked people about what are their methods to calculate, and most of the people replied that they were using spoons, and a small number of people would mention electronic scales. But I think the whole process is time-consuming and boring when they using these two tools to calculate the amount of salt. So in the context of the results of the survey, I thought about whether a design can be made to strictly control the amount of salt you take, not to eat more or less, and the whole process is interesting, not a single repetitive action: Use a spoon to bring salt into the meal.
Preliminary idea: Divide the six grams of salt you need to use each day into small cubes (a small piece for a gram) and put them into a bag (one bag is the amount of salt for one person eating per day). When people cook, they just need to put one or two pieces which can get a clear understanding and manage the amount of salt in their diet.
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