How Low-Salt Diets Give Fuel to Addictions

The Salty Truth: How Eating Salt Can Keep Your Reward System in Normal Mode

Marla Szwast
Unpopular Health Stories
5 min readAug 19, 2018

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Our body has an amazing built-in salt thermostat. When we need more salt we crave it and when we don’t need more, we don’t want it. Without enough salt, we die.

Sugar is a different beast. Your body does not need any sugar. The cravings for…

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Marla Szwast
Unpopular Health Stories

A mom who writes, in the cracks of time, between educating, chauffeuring and feeding half a dozen kids. Top writer in Parenting.