Why Salt Is As Addictive As Heroin Or Cigarettes

Why Salt Is As Addictive As Heroin Or Cigarettes

If your first thought is to reach for the salt shaker when you sit down to a meal, new evidence proves you could be just as addicted to the white stuff as a drug addict.

Professor Derek Denton, founder of the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne and a leading authority on salt, discovered that salt has the same addictive impact on the brain as cigarettes or opiates.

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